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You can get access to all Jetbrains tools for $650/yr for the first year, with the price reducing in subsequent years.

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).

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Yea, it’s only recently I’ve been buying licences for things that make my life (as a dev) better

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

> Considering nearly every S/W dev globally can make that in a couple of days

This is only possibly true if your definition of "global" is "1st world".

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