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My bad, I missed you were talking about on prem. Genuine question though (I'm just an average salaried dev), what are the advantages of on prem in this case? It looks like it's just costlier, will require more maintenance work, but the end you're still hostage of that same proprietary software.

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You're exactly right :-) And that's the problem.

Please take a look at other Jetbrains products - you pay for them once and if you decide to not pay anymore you can still use current version indefinitely.

Honestly I really don't understand people that say that's reasonable pricing - all these "coffee a day" subscriptions tend to quickly amount to salary of additional developer and you have no flexibility to cut it without serious issues.

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