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Re: WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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Post by OutOfHere » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #58

ffsm8 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a person that frequently uses vscode and the paid versions of the jetbrains IDEs: Aren't these just Plugins you can install from the settings(both for vscode and jetbrains IDEs)? Do the free versions not include plugin support?

The GitHub Copilot integration is built by Microsoft and is present in both of the CE builds (IntelliJ and PyCharm). I'm not at all sure why they think it's not. OP is correct about Docker integration and Dev Containers: they cannot be added to the free versions. Dev Containers specifically seems to be OP's big sticking point, but it's a weirdly pedantic point. JetBrains can't give everything away for free or they wo…

> The GitHub Copilot integration is built by Microsoft and is present in both of the CE builds (IntelliJ and PyCharm).

Apologies. Nevertheless, going by its user reviews, it gets the short end of the stick relative to what's in VSCode. Those who've used it with both PyCharm and VSCode seem to prefer using it in VSCode because they find various functionalities lacking in PyCharm.

Re: WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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Post by OutOfHere » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

Larrikin wrote: post #38

OutOfHere wrote: post #10

JetBrains IDEs are better than VSCode, but due to Copilot integration in VSCode, I moved away from JetBrains. I don't see myself going back to JetBrains. Secondly, the free JetBrains IDEs also lack devcontainer support which is readily present in VSCode. To not use devcontainer is a substantial security hazard.

Copilot works just fine in JetBrains? Microsoft has an official plug-in.

Is the completion generation equally good in JetBrains as it is in VSCode? User reviews suggest otherwise.

Re: WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 12:35 AM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #61

lolinder wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The GitHub Copilot integration is built by Microsoft and is present in both of the CE builds (IntelliJ and PyCharm). I'm not at all sure why they think it's not. OP is correct about Docker integration and Dev Containers: they cannot be added to the free versions. Dev Containers specifically seems to be OP's big sticking point, but it's a weirdly pedantic point. JetBrains can't give everything away for free or they wo…

> The GitHub Copilot integration is built by Microsoft and is present in both of the CE builds (IntelliJ and PyCharm). Apologies. Nevertheless, going by its user reviews, it gets the short end of the stick relative to what's in VSCode. Those who've used it with both PyCharm and VSCode seem to prefer using it in VSCode because they find various functionalities lacking in PyCharm.

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Re: WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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Post by drewfis » Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #19

lolinder wrote: post #4

My JetBrains all products pack is one of the few subscriptions that I enthusiastically pay every year. People talk about Copilot or Claude as a force multiplier, but I use both and would rather give them both up than switch full-time to VS Code or similar. Between their git integration, navigation tools, refactors, search, and so on, programming in a large codebase with a JetBrains IDE is just a completely different…

> My JetBrains all products pack is one of the few subscriptions I happily pay this every year myself, but I think it's important to note it's not really a subscription. You pay for software, and you keep that software forever. If you stop paying, you still get to keep what you paid for. What you pay for every year are the updates. I know it's a subtle distinction, but I think it's an important one to make. Again, I…

OMG, I stopped paying for DataGrip and Rider about six months ago and still have full access to them on my work PC for daily use. My personal Mac, though, immediately flagged the expired license once it was up. I actually thought it was some kind of bug on my work setup that let me keep using Rider, DataGrip, and IntelliJ, but I guess it’s just how it’s designed to work if you stay on the last paid version?