Comment by mqus
11 hours ago
Jetbrains gives away for free infinity years of a $180+ per year subscription (its more expensive in the first year or for orgs)[1] for open source authors, students, and more. Sure, the per-month price tag is not as high but after year 4 you saved much more.
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/store/?section=students&billing=ye...
Though it doesn't cost them anything of note to provide this other than maybe some lost sales to devs who would have bought it.
After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can hardly really get into anything that isn't vertically integrated. Language servers are THE WORST -- I love Zed but only use it for things that don't require language integration at all.
It's like how after using Apple hardware for years I couldn't put up with most Windows laptops -- either they were HiDPI ultrabooks with no performance or they were sloppy gamer machines with no class.
Learning JetBrains gets you hooked.