• FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    771·
    2 months ago

    Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.

    It’s absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.

    • morhp@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      The basic software like the Intellij Community Edition is also fully open source. (And it’s not actually basic at all. It’s a great full featured IDE)

      Basically you’re only paying for their support/updates and for specific language and toolkit support, which makes sense to me. They need to pay their staff somehow.

      It’s not comparable to Adobe or other crappy manufacturers where you own nothing.

      • con_fig@programming.dev
        48·
        2 months ago

        If you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.

        • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          17·
          2 months ago

          That’s good, I think that’s a much better and fairer model than being locked out completely of a thing that you did pay for.

  • Traister101@lemmy.today
    441·
    2 months ago

    JetBrains might not be my friend but they don’t hold anywhere near the dev tool monopoly Adobe does for artists. Know what happens if JetBrains starts to blow massive ass? I finally sit down and figure out how to get my terminal editor working with my LSP. Yeah I lose some productivity but not as much as I’d lose by using Visual Studio or fuckn Eclipse.

    • Buckshot@programming.dev
      24·
      2 months ago

      I think another key difference is everyone can use whatever tool they like and still work on the same codebase. They don’t have proprietary file formats that lock in you and your entire team forever.

    • waz@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Also, doesn’t the jetbrains license let you continue to use the version that was the latest as of when your license ended. It’s a small difference, but also kinda huge.

      • RonSijm@programming.dev
        72·
        2 months ago

        No. I know this because a couple of times my license expired, and 30 days before it does you’ll just get a little warning in the IDE - or in tools like Resharper. After that it just stops working.

      • Michal@programming.dev
        3·
        2 months ago

        Iy used to he that, but they’re pushing the new subscription model now and i don’t think the old one can still be purchased.

    • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you are interested there is a great repo to get you up an running on neovim without messing with anything. I got LSP support out of the box and took me less than a week to fully transition away from vscode. It’s called kickstart and is maintained by one the neovim contributors. I’ve done minimal tweaking months later.