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No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)

Out of curiosity, can you explain why you created the community edition for PyCharm, but not others?

First, with PyCharm there is a possibility to have both a community edition which covers a sufficient breadth of scenarios and a good value-add for the professional version to make it commercially attractive. This wouldn't work for other products.

Second, we're specifically mentioning that we want people who first start to learn programming to have access to our products. And a lot of learning these days happens with Python specifically.

Thank you! learners need IDEs too!

(not a learner, but back when I coded .NET I couldn't have lived without resharper. Quite excited that I can use PyCharm now too!)

Awesome! I think you guys are going to be for Python what Eclipse was for Java about a decade ago. I'm a paying PyCharm customer, and I absolutely love it. The pace of development is excellent too.

I was wondering how it's possible that IntelliJ is free for Android development? What drives the decision making to make one product free and the other paid? In a way I like paying for RubyMine, hoping that it won't be discontinued in the long run, although I'm guessing IntelliJ has a much larger user base.

Afaik the Android IDE is the official Android IDE now and supported by google, thats probably why its free!

It's actually the other way round: it could become official and supported by Google because we had released it for free before that.

thanks for clearing up..i thought you guys had some sort of collaboration that yielded in the free Android IDE but this is even better. Well deserved!

The reasons for the decisions are different each time. As for Android, we felt that IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition didn't have as much uptake was we had expected, and we thought that adding Android support to CE would be a great way to make it more attractive without endangering the revenue that we get from selling IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to enterprise customers.

Of course, with the Google partnership that came later, the decision turned out far better that we had originally expected. :)

Android Studio is a rebranded version of the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA which was free and open source for some time already.

The idea probably is to get the people to use (and love) it and then when they want the non-free features, to buy it.

And with Android Studio: Probably Google is paying a bit for the development.

Google is not paying anything for the development of Android Studio. Instead, they've put their own development team to work on the Android features in Android Studio, which we then integrate into our distribution of IntelliJ IDEA.

Thanks for clearing that up!

And thanks for such a great IDE!

So if I'am using Android Studio I am a bit ahead (Android specific) feature wise that by using the latest EAP of IntelliJ IDEA?

Will there be a Go edition, or at least an official JetBrains Go plug-in for the community edition?

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5938

Possibly at some point. Right now we aren't working on Go support and don't have any short-term plans to start.

Totally understandable. I would rather JetBrains do well than be greedy and demanding a "free" version.

and it isn't very expensive either (for a professional coder that is).

Heads up, on the Download page "CoffeeScript" is misspelled: http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/

Thanks! Will fix.

Props for even posting on HN. Perfect example of marketing "doing it right TM"

The link wasn't posted by anyone from JetBrains as far as I can see. But we do always watch comments on Reddit and HN for the discussions of our stuff.

$50/year for the personal edition is a bargain, great product.

Love your products! Love them! I buy WebStorm and IntelliJ IDEA whenever you release a new version. I'm using EAPs for both and while there are some slightly rough edges here and there the products are stable and much better than the already great previous versions. I follow Kotlin and when I have time intend to use it... point is y'all do really great work. Thank you!

Forgot to mention: I also use Android Studio too.

Will the Python plugin for IntelliJ IDEA work in the community edition?

Yes, there will be a version of the Python plugin compatible with the IDEA community edition.

Hey dude, you rock,your products are awesome! just wanted to say thanks.

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