You get paid to build software that makes other people’s jobs easier, correct? Then why balk at paying someone else for software that makes your job easier?
Carpenters don’t forge their own hammers. They go to the store and buy a quality one. It’s an investment.
Well maybe because you will actually own the hammer afterwards, rather than just renting it?
Also, in the web dev community where everything is open source, isn't it a little odd that the way tooling works is dictated by Jetbrains in a closed-source fashion? It just doesn't fit. Or maybe using an IDE is such a rare occurence in web dev that most people just don't care, and the few who do go to Jetbrains?
You get paid to build software that makes other people’s jobs easier, correct? Then why balk at paying someone else for software that makes your job easier?
Carpenters don’t forge their own hammers. They go to the store and buy a quality one. It’s an investment.
Well maybe because you will actually own the hammer afterwards, rather than just renting it?
Also, in the web dev community where everything is open source, isn't it a little odd that the way tooling works is dictated by Jetbrains in a closed-source fashion? It just doesn't fit. Or maybe using an IDE is such a rare occurence in web dev that most people just don't care, and the few who do go to Jetbrains?
Jetbrains offers a perpetual license on all their products...