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oh, oh... open your pockets guys. Here comes again!

P.D.: in one year the Community version will be abandoned. Mark my words.

Is the new CEO money hungry? I feel like I am missing something.

The new ones usually are.

JetBrains is a privately held company.

This is their 3rd CEO in 25 years of existence.

Each CEO has been sourced internally.

They have a solid set of products and brand in their market, they offer comprehensive coverage of their customer's needs.

I'd say that they're doing a pretty good job with their strategy, and there doesn't appear to be any emphasis on short term revenue over long term growth.

So this is not your standard publicly listed company movable MBA/CEO replacement.

I am paying and have no intention to change this, but hopefully they will work on solving old issues and notch up quality a bit. With all those great features, it is a bit annoying to still get a "variable might not have been initialized" warning on a null check (myVar == null) in WebStorm after all those years.

What community version? If there's such a thing on the web site it's well hidden.

Is it? https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ has a link to a download page (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/) which clearly advertises free community version. What would be not _well hidden_ in your opinion?

The existence of the community edition being mentioned anywhere else than the download page, to which you only get by following info about the paid editions :)

Yep, you cannot find it at a quick glance, which is the intended effect.

What community version? If there's such a thing on the web site it's well hidden.

All IDEs except IntelliJ itself come with a community version: PyCharm, PhpStorm, etc.

Would you mind linking to PhpStorm community edition? I don't remember being one. I believe only IntelliJ and PyCharm come with a free version, and the rest (CLion, RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm, GoLand) do not.

All IDEs except IntelliJ itself come with a community versio

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is available; https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/?section=linux

They still do? I know they used to but the last time i quickly checked the site I couldn't find it anywhere. Because they didn't want me to find it.

I used to use pycharm but just switched. Still using Android Studio but that's on Google's dime.

Idk what you're looking at but the download link for the community edition is right below the ultimate edition...

Didn't get to the download page. Why would I? I only wanted to check what they're offering this week, not download anything.

One way to find is to google "IntelliJ community".

This is just wrong. Almost none of the IDEs have community editions, EXCEPT IntelliJ and Pycharm…

It probably changed; a few years ago I remember using at least two or three of them without paying.

It's fun. Everyone remembers a different set of community editions.

It's probably a safe assumption all of them will disappear then.

Datagrip doesn't

Well, we do have VSCodium at least.

That said, I'm paying yearly subscription and I think it should have been improved somewhat. Rollbacking to old JetBrains version.

VSCodium isn’t going to save us. MSFT LSP’s cannot be used with MIT releases of VSCode. See https://ghuntley.com/fracture

I'm currently on the JetBrains Ultimate plan, because their tools are that good in my eyes. Well, maybe except Fleet, because it's a bit early in its development and it loves to eat memory for the type of tool it tries to be (e.g. compete against VSC directly).

I hope they don't mess with the recurring discounts for subscriptions.

Honestly, the idea of getting rid of the Community version would be like shooting themselves in the foot, given how popular and passable VSC with a lot of plugins can be. I'm pretty sure nobody would actually consider doing that.

Either way, for larger enterprise projects, JetBrains IDEs still feel like the right tool for the job regardless.

Have a look at Kate, last versions have LSP support and it works quite well

Not close at all.

Wait, is Idera involved somehow?

Why is that? Based on what?

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