It almost feels quaint but very comforting. I wonder if there will be a pushback against companies with lots of investor money. It seems they are all doomed to grow quickly at any cost, shady or not.

Beyond Compare is a great piece of software. Almost perfect.

I used vscode as my daily driver for a long time, I find webstorm is a much better experience, particularly because vscode is so centred around javascript and non-js plugins are lacking. I work in consulting, so my tech stack changes every few months. Being able to swap from pycharm to phpstorm for example and have familiar keybindings is nice.

Can only speak about technologies I work with so for PHP, JetBrains PHPStorm is probably the only decent IDE. WebStorm is also better for web development, primarily you get all the features out of the box without having to configure anything. I tried VSCode but found that I need to use plugins for everything and there are multiple plugins for the same feature, which means I have to try all of them to see what suits me. This is a time consuming process and I'd rather I use WebStorm instead :)

Wut...? Vscode is “eating” the cheapest end of the market, where they were present (with the Community editions) but not seriously competing.

They are fine. Their financials are sound and they are plenty profitable. Their real threat is Github and similar services, who try to persuade users that they don’t need an IDE at all. Hence why they’ve come up with a collab alternative that they presented with great fanfare. Imho they should just buy gitlab and integrate with it a bit better.