Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.
It’s absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
The basic software like the Intellij Community Edition is also fully open source. (And it’s not actually basic at all. It’s a great full featured IDE)
Basically you’re only paying for their support/updates and for specific language and toolkit support, which makes sense to me. They need to pay their staff somehow.
It’s not comparable to Adobe or other crappy manufacturers where you own nothing.
If you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.
Basically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.
If I subscribe for 10 years then can’t afford it any more I’m rewarded with a 10 year old version of the software? It should be the version that was current when you finished your subscription.
JetBrains might not be my friend but they don’t hold anywhere near the dev tool monopoly Adobe does for artists. Know what happens if JetBrains starts to blow massive ass? I finally sit down and figure out how to get my terminal editor working with my LSP. Yeah I lose some productivity but not as much as I’d lose by using Visual Studio or fuckn Eclipse.
Also, doesn’t the jetbrains license let you continue to use the version that was the latest as of when your license ended. It’s a small difference, but also kinda huge.
It’s the version from when you paid your annual subscription (or 12 monthly payments ago) plus any bugfixes.
So you buy 4.3.2 and you will always have access to 4.3.Z
2 months later they release 5.0.0. Your subscription let’s you use 5.0.0. If you cancel your subscription then can go back to your perpetual version 4.3.Z
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work
If you are interested there is a great repo to get you up an running on neovim without messing with anything. I got LSP support out of the box and took me less than a week to fully transition away from vscode. It’s called kickstart and is maintained by one the neovim contributors. I’ve done minimal tweaking months later.
donate to your favorite open source project instead!
Some JetBrains IDEs are fully open source. Does Adobe have anything like that?
Then why is Gabe Newell on my Friends list? 😌
