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Discussion on: Why I Switched From Visual Studio Code To JetBrains WebStorm

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Alex

Paid by jetbrains to advetise their expensive product? I wouldn't spend a penny for an "IDE".

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Sergey Kislyakov

It's not expensive.

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Michael Hoffmann

Nope I am not sponsored and currently using the EAP version

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Stuart Slaugh

Expensive? 89$ per year? You better get a better job lol! Would you use VSCode if it wasn't free? Jetbrains makes great software and you're probably working twice as hard as you need to if you never use an IDE.

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Tamas Herman

To be fair, you should spend a few hundred extra dollars on your computer to enjoy a snappy JetBrains IDE experience, because you will need a few extra gigs of memory, fast SSD and i7 with lots of L3 cache to speed up code indexing...

You might need to invest every 2-3 years into your machine too keep it up with the hunger of your IDE (and the wasteful projects you might be working with...), so that cost amortizes quite well, IMHO...

I was paying for IntelliJ Ultimate monthly for 2 years but last year I've upgraded to the yearly All Pack version, since they offer substantial discounts for continuous subscribers and they do a really great job! It cost me 190 USD/year, which is ~16 USD/month. That's pretty reasonable for a tool I use daily for work...

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Vasyl Boroviak • Edited

I used to spend 4-8 hours a month to configure or keep updated my VS Code / Atom. That's roughly $100 MONTHLY.

The WebStorm costs my employer $50 YEARLY. I don't waste that time any more.

WebStorm is CHEAPER than VS Code.