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Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

#291

As a looooooooong term intellij user, it surprised me that Rider is the more performant IDE (IDEA was the primary product - i expected it to have the best experience). I've used Rider a fair bit over the past 18 months or so (all products licence) and it's still very noticeable every time i spend time in Rider.

I think some of Rider is written in C# vs all Java for IDEA. Could that be it?

Their Resharper is indeed C#, only GUI is written using Kotlin.

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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I think parent has an issue where at first he develops something he thinks he won't sell but later it turns out he has opportunity to make money on it. My take would be, when decision to earn money one should buy the license for sure. I don't think you can somehow pay for previous use and I expect no one will hold it against you. But at the same time if you "develop non commercially" and you know you will be trying t…

I think an unsuccessful commercial venture is still a commercial venture.

They can be pity like that if they want but they shouldnt be surprised if they cant scale their customer-base anymore at some point.

Which is probably why they're beginning to change their strategy rn with this move ...

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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For someone who just got into game development on Mac, this is very interesting. I'd never heard of this IDE before. Will give it a try.

good luck, they will expect you to pay $149 / yr even if you don't make a penny off your game

all the while you coulda probably just made it in VS code for free...

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

#297

Can I just say I absolutely hate how the grid layout is ever so gently not straight until you scroll passed it, and then when you scroll back up it's all like "no I was always straight, what are you talking about". Stop making me worry about whether I'm having a stroke.

Yea it's terrible, I don't get the point. Is it supposed to be funny and "get you"? (Genuine question)

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Correct, though they also lost some who were not willing to relocate.

That's really too bad, and not fair to the Russian developers. More 'collateral damage' from the NATO-Russia conflict.

> More 'collateral damage' from the NATO-Russia conflict.

What has NATO to do with Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

#299

I loved JetBrains IDEs years back. These days I am mostly using NeoVim. I decided today to stop supporting JetBrains BECAUSE there is no good kotlin language server. I would gladly pay them money even if I don't use their IDEs if only they provided a good language server.

> I decided today to stop supporting JetBrains BECAUSE there is no good kotlin language server.

They’ve been awful stewards of the language despite investing so much into it.

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