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> Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way. For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.

They just aren't, I would not switch to Jetbrains from VSCode even if it was free. It's not a question of pricing and Jetbrains themselves started to realise it since they are building some VSC clone (forgot the name right now)

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They just are though, once you realise how much more powerful they are. I had a collegue until recently (he was let go), who was a staunch VSCode fan that refused to use Jetbrains IDEs. His code is terrible and riddled with bugs. Most of them were even easily detected by the Jetbrains IDEs. Now I have to clean up his shitty projects. He also spend a lot of time configuring his shitty VSCode instead of working.

I've tried IntelliJ for both Elixir and Clojure. While Cursive is ok, I can confidently say that the vscode Elixir support is far, far better, and in Cursive vs Cider I'd take Cider any day.

Yeah, if your writing Kotlin/Java IntelliJ is a no-brainer, but for many of us the situation is much more nuanced.

Oh yeah sure they are powerful, I don't deny that but I really hate the UX and the readability. At the end of the day, I don't really want to spend time to make it usable enough to my liking.

Expecting a IDE to fix someone's terrible code riddle with bugs non sequitur. What programming language was this?

Their new VSC alternative name is fleet and I don't think they confirmed it will be free like VSCode though.

Thanks for the name, I completely forgot about it. I'm totally fine paying for it if it's nice, it's just that I prefer something similar to VSCode rather than Jetbrains IDEs.

Are you refering to free or free? Paying money I don't mind, but being non-free would be a big drawback.

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