IntelliJ IDEA Moves to the Unified Distribution

Post by brawll » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #4

akazantsev wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a subscription for all JetBrains products, and I installed Ultimate just twice to access the profiler. This move makes 100% sense to me. I always install the Community Edition because I'm too lazy to log in to the toolbox. So, I no longer need to install another IDE to access the advanced features.

I actually used to have them both installed (both flavors of PyCharm, too) in order to be able to say with confidence what behavior(s) were present in each tier, since the Apache 2 products are so strong it makes it hard to keep track of where exactly that line lives

what I am inferring from this is that basically community edition was almost as good as Ultimate and in certain aspects community ed. might've been even better.

Post by ezst » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 9:32 AM UTC

kosher88 wrote: post #10

ezst wrote: post #9

As I understand it, in the new scheme, ultimate subscription is essentially about turning on proprietary addons for as long as the subscription lasts. That uncouples the features from a specific build and release carrying them. How does this bode with the older promise that "you forever own what you paid for", which was distinctive (and appreciated) of the old scheme? Can you still choose to keep your addons with an…

Yes, perpetual fallback license still works as before, giving you access to the last major version available at the time your most recent uninterrupted year of subscription began. With the unified distribution, this means you can activate subscription (paid addons) in older versions that match your fallback license.

Interesting! How is it going to work between IDE version and addons compat? At one point those constantly updating addons will become incompatible with older IDEs?

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