there are too many small features, like the local history which has saved me multiple times from blunders like running git clean forgetting that I hadn't yet committed the files
OTOH, since webstorm indexes the project, the refactors across multiple files are more reliable than for ex. vscode
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I think that for any JB product you can find better and free alternatives.
I think the opposite. I think that JetBrains has a level of quality that is almost impossible to find in the free alternatives.
name one Jb product for which you are not able to find an alternative
that's an easy one: webstorm
there are too many small features, like the local history which has saved me multiple times from blunders like running git clean forgetting that I hadn't yet committed the files
OTOH, since webstorm indexes the project, the refactors across multiple files are more reliable than for ex. vscode