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If you can't afford to pay for an IDE then your employer should get out of software development.

That's a hard fact.

Any organisation that can pay a salary or a contract rate, pay for a computer for the person to work on, pay for the hosting of their service, well they can also afford to pay for the tools that the developers need to do their job. And if they really can't, as I say, they should stop doing development because they are deeply unserious.

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> If you can't afford to pay for an IDE then your employer should get out of software development.

That's my most workplaces. After cut-throat technical recruitment process with complexity and data structures smartasses, I thought they must be great workplaces with the best tools. Then on the first day in the office "IDE?! no we have no budget for it, why don't you write code in the new message window of outlook?"

Developers clearly don't need Jetbrains in order to work. Millions and millions work every day without it.

Yes but they’re so nice to use. It’s the integrated part that matters. The collection of tools just play well together.

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