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Rider and Webstorm from JetBrains are now free for non-commercial use (blog.jetbrains.com)
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[+] -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're really not. As much as I hate commercial licensing for any dev tools, if you want to talk about superior there's nothing quite as good as Visual Studio (not code) on Windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I adore Visual Studio for how it set the gold standard for code editing. VsCode is growing rapidly, but Visual Studio set an incredibly high bar.

    For anyone reading along, Visual Studio Community Edition was free and fantastic last time I tried it, and it does 99% of anything any individual developer cares about.

    The paid professional license shines for big messy enterprise stuff, but most people looking for an editor don't need to worry about that.

    All that said, disclaimer for full honesty: my tool of choice is NeoVim - often with a splash of VSCodium.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They’re really not. As much as I hate commercial licensing for any dev tools, if you want to talk about superior there’s nothing quite as good as Visual Studio (not code) on Windows.

    It really depends on what kind of project you're working on. For .NET projects that might be true, but for other languages such as anything involving C++ then Visual Studio lags way behind CLion, which is multiplatform to boot.

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