JetBrains Offers Free Use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs (infoworld.com) 13
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:5, Informative)
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:3, Informative)
Not to mention vscode.
Wrong. Nonsense. (Score:4, Informative)
Jetbrains isn't playing catch-up. The _completely_ open source community version of their IntelliJ IDE has been available since the beginning, IIRC more that two decades ago. The entire Android Studio IDE - which is also completely free - is based on it. On top of that it's cross-platform and always has been, _unlike_ Visual Studio. And it always has supported a plethora of technologies and languages, also very much unlike Visual Studio.
VS Code is a Atom fork built with and around TypeScript, and it is impressive for the simple fact that it is a very well built and powerful FOSS tool from - believe it or not - Microsoft. But this isn't anything special either. Kotlin - which is FOSS - is designed and built by Jetbrains and the Intellij Community Edition fully supports Kotlin development and has been around just about as long as VS Code, if not longer.
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The article isn't about IntelliJ or IIRC, it's about WebStorm and Rider. Sorry my statement was overly broad.
Given that WebStorm and Rider ... (Score:2)
... are basically specialized variants of the IntelliJ IDE - as basically every IDE tool from JetBrains - it's IMHO fitting to lump them together when discussing development tools outside of language and stack-specific contexts.
IMHO the cross-platform multi-technology approach by Jetbrains is precisely what enabled them _not_ to play catch-up but basically lead the field when it comes to cross-platform IDEs for all key software stacks and even a few more obscure ones. In that regard I personally would even
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VS Code indeed does all the of the core things that an IDE does:
- Code editing, including syntax highlighting and autocomplete
- Build
- Interactive debugging
https://www.codecademy.com/art... [codecademy.com]
What else would be required to make it an IDE, in your book?
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.
They lost many when the UI changed (Score:1)
Intellij lost me and a lot of users when they basically made the UI/UX like vscode. Why would I pay for a shitty product that hides everything from me when I can get it for free. I liked that buttons looked like buttons and everything didn't look like a damn mobile app with rounded everything.
I want all the info and complexity of their old UI. I liked having info available to me without having to click something. And no, I don't want install a bunch of extensions by "some random internet guy I don't tru