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why is this an issue?

if you want to use the software in this specialized combination, purchase it.

if you want to use the free/community editions, go ahead.

if you are a student or are using it for community/non-profit purposes JetBrains also has a pretty good licensing for students/education/non-profits.

aside from depriving a software maker from charging for their labour, while making profit yourself, what does this complaint actually achieve?

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This seems to misrepresent the parent. Wasn’t the parent claim that you can’t pay for a seamless version even if you want to? They note that if a paid plugin was to be offered it would work for most ... I don’t know if they got the facts right but didn’t seem to be complaining about lack of free.

The parent post is mistaken

there is a perfectly fine rust plugin available with the intellij idea ultimate - provided you pay for intellij ultimate (and / or get it through education/nonprofit licensing)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472463

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22407-rust

That’s good to know, but doesn't change my comment substantively.

I have a C# backend with VueJS SPA using this backend. I just use Rider for all my development, having the backend and UI in the same project (in a monorepo). Having two IDEs would just make things less fluent IMHO.

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