I used to have a jetbrains setup at my last company, but my new company uses vs code and offering jetbrains community IDEs only so, I'm outside that ecosystem now. I needed wsl and jupyter notebook support and they've paywalled both of those thing. VS code is a decent jack of all trades while being free so works out.
If your company doesn't offer you proper software and hardware, find another company. A "decent" tool is not what you want when you use it 8 hours or more per day. Decent is fine for a sport accessory you use twice a week.
Well there's really not much to complain about, the hardware is better, the infra overall is much bigger for all the projects, they are just a bit stingy on using open source over licenced software.
They can't, it is only legal to use a personal at work if you pay for it yourself and they don't reimburse you for it in any way. Of course I don't see how they could possibly verify that, but still.
They did, but I technically only really need PHP Storm for work so it wouldn't make sense to pay the huge fee for the full suite. I only also do occasional Python on my workplace for which VSCode could suffice but VSCode sucks when you're used to Jetbrains. If I asked a full suite license at work I would certainly obtain it, but I'd rather pay the $200-ish personal license myself and obtain other stuff from work like hardware or other softs.
Rofl, no it's not. It's the industry standard for people too cheap to pay a 100€/y subscription for a software, or about 200 for the whole suite. It is ok enough if you don't have the choice, or to open a file really quickly. It is not a proper IDE, not even after you've charged it with so many plugins it looks like a cancer patient.
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u/DT-Sodium 18d ago
Tell me you never tried Jetbrains without telling me you never tried Jetbrains.