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Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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fractalsea wrote: post #73
yole wrote: post #45

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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

Out of curiosity, can you explain why you created the community edition for PyCharm, but not others?

First, with PyCharm there is a possibility to have both a community edition which covers a sufficient breadth of scenarios and a good value-add for the professional version to make it commercially attractive. This wouldn't work for other products.

Second, we're specifically mentioning that we want people who first start to learn programming to have access to our products. And a lot of learning these days happens with Python specifically.

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by yole »

SEJeff wrote: post #127
yole wrote: post #45

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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

Props for even posting on HN. Perfect example of marketing "doing it right TM"

The link wasn't posted by anyone from JetBrains as far as I can see. But we do always watch comments on Reddit and HN for the discussions of our stuff.

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by yole »

fdb wrote: post #103
yole wrote: post #45

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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

Will the Python plugin for IntelliJ IDEA work in the community edition?

Yes, there will be a version of the Python plugin compatible with the IDEA community edition.

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by mikevm »

yareally wrote: post #123
saym wrote: post #109

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Retraining the brain is difficult in almost any facet. I tried switching keyboard layouts once, suffice it to say I've reverted to ye olde QWERTY.

For what it's worth, I used Eclipse for 3-4 years before Intellij (it was what my university introduced students to for programming in C++ and Java). Switching to Intellij was pretty painless other than initial configuration overload (since there's so much more built into it by default than Eclipse). Having to switch back to Eclipse at times for a few things since was not so much. Intellij just as a much more intuiti…

IntelliJ has such an ugly font rendering system on Windows that it makes it very hard for me to dump Eclipse. This prolly has to do with Eclipse's native font rendering.

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by yole »

dschuler wrote: post #113
yole wrote: post #45

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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

I was wondering how it's possible that IntelliJ is free for Android development? What drives the decision making to make one product free and the other paid? In a way I like paying for RubyMine, hoping that it won't be discontinued in the long run, although I'm guessing IntelliJ has a much larger user base.

The reasons for the decisions are different each time. As for Android, we felt that IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition didn't have as much uptake was we had expected, and we thought that adding Android support to CE would be a great way to make it more attractive without endangering the revenue that we get from selling IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to enterprise customers.

Of course, with the Google partnership that came later, the decision turned out far better that we had originally expected. :)

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by yole »

kayoone wrote: post #142
dschuler wrote: post #113

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I was wondering how it's possible that IntelliJ is free for Android development? What drives the decision making to make one product free and the other paid? In a way I like paying for RubyMine, hoping that it won't be discontinued in the long run, although I'm guessing IntelliJ has a much larger user base.

Afaik the Android IDE is the official Android IDE now and supported by google, thats probably why its free!

It's actually the other way round: it could become official and supported by Google because we had released it for free before that.

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Post by biafra »

dschuler wrote: post #113
yole wrote: post #45

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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

I was wondering how it's possible that IntelliJ is free for Android development? What drives the decision making to make one product free and the other paid? In a way I like paying for RubyMine, hoping that it won't be discontinued in the long run, although I'm guessing IntelliJ has a much larger user base.

Android Studio is a rebranded version of the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA which was free and open source for some time already.

The idea probably is to get the people to use (and love) it and then when they want the non-free features, to buy it.

And with Android Studio: Probably Google is paying a bit for the development.

Re: JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

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Post by Demiurge »

Hm, so I just tried it. I have the latest Mac mini (i5 8GB RAM), and it was slow. Switching between files, highlighting lagged. Typing was stuttery. Next, I couldn't change the font, it was just not selecting. So, looks like cool software, but I went back to Sublime Text 3 with lint extension.
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