Companies want developers to buy into editors like religion. All of them (editors) do the same, but spending money on IntelliJ is the hardest flex because it says I’m an enterprise developer look at me.
I don’t ask my work to pay, because I use it personally as well, and I look at my brother as a woodworker and he’s honed his tools to what suits him.
I do the same.
Considering nearly every S/W dev globally can make that in a couple of days, I'm not sure how much of a flex it is considering it would be your primary work tool.
And I say this as someone whose never used a Jetbrains tool and use Vim for nearly everything (except when I'm on Windows where I use a mix of Notepad++ and VSCode).
Sometimes you can afford it, and sometimes you can’t.
I think we forget when you could (and still can) do dev with a text editor.
I 100% get what you say, but that’s a lot of money potentially - which is where I think vscode /vim etc shine in that it’s free and can do the same kinda thing
This is only possibly true if your definition of "global" is "1st world".
It doesn't even come close. It's powerful but it's definitely not the same. I would go back to NetBeans before using VSCode. There's no religion behind it, it's just that there are tools that suit my needs better than others.