From time to time I've seen products like WebStorm, PyCharm, PhpStorm, Space, TeamCity, IntelliJ appearing in the tools list of some devs.
I've also aware their products are pretty pricey, knowing that nowadays you can find a free alternative for almost anything.
Have you ever tried any of their products and is the price/value ratio really good enough to use their stuff?
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I'm a long time user of Webstorm and have used things like ReSharper in the past. Hands down the best IDE I've used. VS Code is really really great, but I've found that it's a bit like WordPress: good out of the box; better with a butt load of extensions.
Trouble is, the extensions bog it down and I found I was getting performance issues and random problems with things like autocomplete and so on.
However, back to JetBrains and Webstorm. Absolutely love it. It feels like a more grown up, well-rounded IDE with superb autocomplete and function linking and referencing. It has so much support for various languages and tooling built in, and yes, it is a little slower to boot up than, say VS Code or Sublime, but once up and running, it's very performant.
They have great products.
I use IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and DataGrip on daily basis and they are very useful.
I am buying their all product pack subscription for individuals and it doesn't seam to be pricey.
249$ - first year
199$ - second year
149$ - third year onwards
Seams pretty reasonable pricing to me for a full-time employee software developer.
When I started learning Kotlin I needed to use IntelliJ IDEA. And when I started to learn Flutter/Dart I started using Android Studio which is built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software. So now i'm a fan of both however I have setup Visual Studio Code for Kotlin and Flutter/Dart projects. But its still easier to use JetBrains products for that type of development because you get more features and plugins.
IntelliJ - one of the best IDEs so far. its costly but its worth the price. I used it for Java projects. I have used Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ all three for Java, J2EE projects. Loved IntelliJ out of these 3. It takes time to load the project initially but post that it works fast.
I'm using IntelliJ Community edition, which is free. One of the best Java IDE's.
Also, I have purchased CLion for personal projects. So far this is the best IDE for C/C++/Rust.
Each to their own, but ever since I tried WebStorm I've been hooked on all JetBrains IDEs and will never go back to VSCode. The most valuable features for me is the extremely good refactoring tooling built in to all JB products, as well as very helpful and educative prompts that guide you to use best practices in your code.
I feel like I'm a professional software dev using JetBrains products, while I feel like I'm back to "learning to code" mode with VSCode.
The biggest downside of JB IDEs is they can be very memory intensive. If you don't have a powerful laptop it can get quite laggy.
For something like 7 years, I was a big fan of Eclipse for Java development.
A few years ago, I was forced to try IntelliJ. Next day, I bought the Ultimate version which is my go to IDE for everything now and I have never looked back. It's awesome, productive, and comes with everything I need. From database, docker, terminal, etc. I don't need to leave it IDE, and the completion engine is excellent.
Now, I'm mostly using Kotlin and I couldn't even imagine my life without IntelliJ.
And as for the price? It's virtually free in comparison how much time it saves me.
From what I've seen from others using it, it looks like it often has performance issues. You're probably better off sticking to vscode. As a developer, I don't think the price really matters (for software I use which is free, I'll donate to the project).
From my experience VSCode is slower and consumes more resources than JetBrains products. And not even close in regard to functionality.
I don't use vscode or any jetbrain products, I'm just stating the experience of several others. They were using macbooks, could this be related?
Not sure, I've used macbook as well and haven't noticed any issues.
I have been using PhpStorm for the past 7 years now, started using it while being self-employed and I found the license cost absolutely reasonable. Usability, integrated features and extensibility are in my eyes way better than in any free or commercial tool. 0xDBE or now DataGrid is also great, it's nice to have one database IDE for multiple different DBMSs.
At my current company we use TeamCity and ReSharper for C# development and this greatly helped to improve code quality and the build process.
IJ and CL, for java, python, and c++. I realize there is PC but the python plugin is enough for me on IJ. Great ide's, switched over 6-7 years ago from eclipse never looked back.
The fact that they're all identical gui's make it so pleasant.
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