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Comment by rcardo11 | Hacker News Reader

I'd like to understand how these guys make money, I've used the free version of IntelliJ for years and never required anymore than this! Does people actually buy licenses ?

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Some of the language specific IDEs do not have a free (community) version like CLion for C/C++ or Rider for C#/.NET/Unity (and Unreal Engine in the near future) and bring a lot to the table for those languages.

I am a heavy user of CLion and enjoyed my education license while I was in engineering school, I will happily buy a personal license when it expires !

I do Java, Ruby, Go, Clojure, Python, k8s gigs or side projects. For 150EUR/yr I get solid always current workbench with many specialized flavours (IDEA, RubyMine, GoLand, PyCharm) and consistent UX. Moreover there are quality 3rd party plugins available for K8s yamls or Clojure (Cursive).

Yeah, they are cheap (for US professionals, at least). I've subscribed to their products for over half a decade now and have it on auto-renew without thinking.

If you take the personal license, from 3rd year, you only pay $15/mo for everything they got.

Thank god they don't do Adobe and make a single app cost $50/mo or some such stupid pricing.

I've had a personal all tool license since they switched to the licensing model. 150 / yr is reasonable for me to be able to use their tools on my personal projects, and also not having to pester my bosses about getting a license whenever I change jobs.

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