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> I'll never understand why a professional developer would give so much influence over their work to the likes of MS, JetBrains, etc.

To flip it, I'll never understand why a professional developer won't spend a measly hundred bucks on an IDE that has everything set up out of the box.

Also, VSCode and IDEA are both open source.

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> Also, VSCode and IDEA are both open source.

In both cases its open source like Android is open source. The core code is available but its pretty much useless compared to the commercial version. On top of that it is still owned by a corporation who probably don't have their users interests in mind.

VSCode isn't open source, but VSCodium (which comprises a significant subset of VSCode) is. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24561289.

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