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Rider and Webstorm from JetBrains are now free for non-commercial use (blog.jetbrains.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

They're really not. As much as I hate commercial licensing for any dev tools, if you want to talk about superior there's nothing quite as good as Visual Studio (not code) on Windows.

[–] brettvitaz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That’s just your opinion, and your specific use case. I do not enjoy using Visual Studio, and MS no longer makes it for the Mac (the superior developer platform (see what I did there?)). JetBrains products have their weaknesses but they are damn good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Visual Studio for Mac was never the real Visual Studio it was a reskin of Xamarin Studio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Sounds like a discussion about if someone likes apples or pears

[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I adore Visual Studio for how it set the gold standard for code editing. VsCode is growing rapidly, but Visual Studio set an incredibly high bar.

For anyone reading along, Visual Studio Community Edition was free and fantastic last time I tried it, and it does 99% of anything any individual developer cares about.

The paid professional license shines for big messy enterprise stuff, but most people looking for an editor don't need to worry about that.

All that said, disclaimer for full honesty: my tool of choice is NeoVim - often with a splash of VSCodium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I don't actually use VS either mostly because I prefer to use a lighter editor and the commandline. But it does set a high bar for what an IDE should be.