From time to time I've seen products like WebStorm, PyCharm, PhpStorm, Space, TeamCity, IntelliJ appearing in the tools list of some devs.
I've also aware their products are pretty pricey, knowing that nowadays you can find a free alternative for almost anything.
Have you ever tried any of their products and is the price/value ratio really good enough to use their stuff?
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Long time user of Intellij and similar IDE products. Can definitely say that (until the recent 2024 product range) the navigation features and in-built functionality has far outweighed the product range from competing IDEs.
Now it looks much like VS-Code and has lost the majority of its useful navigation. Please for the love of [insert chosen favourite thing to love here] go back to what it used to be in 2020-2023 for visual layout and navigation, there was nothing wrong with it. You just need to maintain the back-end and library controls.
It's also the base IDE platform for Android Studio phone application development (yes the mighty G did make some things that are specific, but these have been pre-defined and pre-installed and it makes your life as a developer much simpler).
I will still recommend also learning how to create applications using a command-line/terminal for your chosen operating system to make sure you understand how much time these tools can save you, there are some occasions in your life where the IDE will not be available.
Been using PyCharm for around a year now for Django development. It’s actually pretty solid. ✅
I'm using WebStorm as my default IDE for all javascript-projects. It's very satisfying for me that it has a whole bunch of features but the UI is not overloaded with several buttons and toolbars. So everything seems clear and its easy to find my tools.
For a Xamarin-App I started to use Visual Studio for Mac but neither the UI is attractive nor the features could convince me. I switched to Rider and now I'm using it for all my .NET-projects. Surprising to me, that using Rider for a Xamarin is more fun than VS for Mac, since VS Mac's origin is Xamarin Studio.
But I have to admit that I was convinced mainly by the better features and completions in the C#-Code and the better unit test-suite, so the overall workflow is more neatless. All other neccessary and specific tools for Xamarin work as expected (hot-reload, formatting, emulator-connection,...).
The benefit over VS Code for me is the quality of plugins in JetBrains IDEs. All plugins that I used, did exactly what I was expecting. The marketplace doesn't seem as huge, but the quality in general is nice.
Against Visual Studio for Windows I don't see any disadvantages with Rider. Everything I need, I found in a reasonable place or could be installed via plugin.
Even the pricing is absolutely fine and fair. You are not trapped into a weird subscription and you can choose which products you need (more than 2 products, then all-products-pack might be the best choice). JetBrains doesn't give you features that you don't need but let you pay for it. For me, it's quite important to have a transparent pricing model for my default and most important software tool.
It's also unusual that JetBrains doesn't make a difference between private and commercial license. That does give me the opportunity to use my private license in commercial projects, even if my employer only gives me Visual Studio.
Used to married to WebStorm and PyCharm. Divorced after alternative is less resource hogging. Especially the WebStorm is capable of making my expensive DELL Precision Workstation PC fans screaming.
Hello! I used Rubymine, a little of Phpstorm but I use Webstorm for the most of my time of code.
Very useful 👍
They have great products.
I use IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and DataGrip on daily basis and they are very useful.
I am buying their all product pack subscription for individuals and it doesn't seam to be pricey.
249$ - first year
199$ - second year
149$ - third year onwards
Seams pretty reasonable pricing to me for a full-time employee software developer.
I guess I'm much more into Jetbrains IDEs than most people, but I absolutely love all of them! I use them consistently for any development I do, big or small.
I primarily develop in Python, so i've got my team using Pycharm at work, and it is definitely a wonderful tool. IntelliJ is the best Java IDE I've ever used as well. I even use Datagrip as a DB visualizer (and I feel like I'm the only person I've ever met that uses it)
Pycharm and Datagrip are best, used it professionally. Easy to use interface in all Jetbrains tools.
I skimmed through the comments, it appears I am in the minority, but my experience of Webstorm terrible.
It started out alright for a year or two, very much liked the UI, but then every release introduced terrible slowdown, at times it was totally unusable. I was right in the middle of critical project.
The JetBrains support kept having me add weird hacky startup settings I never understood what they were supposed to do, and they often weren’t particularly forthcoming in explaining why I had to add these settings.
And each time they said wait for the next release, and I did, and the slowdown got worse, and worse, eventually changed IDE and everything was instantly better speed wise, though relearning the UI was a quite painful.
Never trying Webstorm again, total waste of money, but even worse, months of my life I will never get back.
I use it daily and I can't live without: Rider, Resharper, DataGrip, DotPeek, DotCover, DotMemory and DotTrace.
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