Secondly, the free JetBrains IDEs also lack devcontainer support
Actually, there is a significant difference between the community versions (e.g. for PyCharm) and the versions available for non-commercial use. The latter are full versions of the products without any reduced functionality, whereas the community editions have certain features trimmed.
JetBrains simply is uncompetitive. It doesn't make sense to have to pay for an important feature (container integration via devcontainer or docker) that is already free in a competing IDE (VSCode).
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Actually, there is a significant difference between the community versions (e.g. for PyCharm) and the versions available for non-commercial use. The latter are full versions of the products without any reduced functionality, whereas the community editions have certain features trimmed.
JetBrains simply is uncompetitive. It doesn't make sense to have to pay for an important feature (container integration via devcontainer or docker) that is already free in a competing IDE (VSCode).