JetBrains Offers Free Use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs (infoworld.com) 6
An anonymous reader quotes a report from InfoWorld: Select developers now are getting free access to JetBrains' WebStorm and Rider IDEs. The company on October 24 announced it has launched non-commercial licenses for its WebStorm JavaScript and TypeScript IDE and the Rider cross-platform .NET and game development IDE. As of now, developers using these IDEs for non-commercial purposes, such as open source project development or content creation, can use them for free. JetBrains views the move as expanding the availability of these IDEs to a broader swath of developer roles. More than two-thirds of developers code outside of work as a hobby and nearly 40% code for educational and learning purposes outside of work, the company said."Previously this year, JetBrains released other products under the same terms for non-commercial use, including RustRover, an IDE for Rust development, and Aqua, an IDE designed for test automation," notes InfoWorld. "JetBrains also provides community editions of IntelliJ and PyCharm, IDEs for Java and Python, respectively, which can be used to build proprietary and commercial software."
JetBrains has an FAQ section with additional details about the change.
JetBrains has an FAQ section with additional details about the change.
Playing catch-up (Score:3)
Microsoft has been offering free versions of its IDEs for many years now. Visual Studio Community Edition provides a feature-complete free version of Visual Studio for hobbyists--even if they are writing code for commercial purposes. And Visual Studio Code is completely free for anyone. Both are excellent IDEs with widespread adoption. Maybe JetBrains is feeling some pressure to compete in this space.
Re: Playing catch-up (Score:2)
Not to mention vscode.
Good move (Score:1, Interesting)
I love JetBrains, but many people don't want to pay for private use and thus never develop the muscle memory, instead going out to other free editors like VSCode, which is unusable for very large projects and non-JavaScript, but still I see people coming in that have used only VSCode professionally.
I always loved Eclipse but it was a bit clunky, JetBrains is basically Eclipse with all the rough edges removed, once you get the entire suite though, try WriterSide - you write your documentation as if is code a
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VSCode, which is unusable for very large projects and non-JavaScript
What do you mean? VS Code works very well with many non-JavaScript languages.
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This isn't predatory at all.