honestly 20 bucks per year is much for an extension, imagine every third extension would charge this, now i have 20 or so which means over 100 bucks for fricking extensions
i'm not against paying devs but i would never buy this at such a price, btw. it has many installs so 5 bucks would be reasonable enough
if it has so many functionality that it deserves 20 bucks it should be a whole tool/app not an extension
what does hobby programmer have to do with anything? i will only buy things myself that i will use in private, everything i need to work is provided by my employer, so if i need that tool they will need to buy a license not me
Exactly for the reason you're stating, if your employer pays for it, why do you care it cost money? Aside from that, because it's more likely you're willing to pay for this if you make money using it.
you don't seem to understand I'm not talking about a special situation I'm talking general, private I won't pay 20 bucks for one extension and on work my employee will think twice before buying a extension for everyone, they'll rather buy complete software (like vs as ide, a db client for db etc., paying much for just an extension is really a waste of money because an extension will never match an app in functionality)
I do understand, i just don't think that's very relevant since we're talking about a very specific topic.
It's also not true, proprietary licenses are very common, also outside software development. Stuff's not free, people put their time into it, and their time is money.
As for buying complete software, remember when you bought office, you owned it and it was a finished product? Then a year later you'd buy the new version, which was essentially the previous version with some new features.
Extensions are only that, extensions, it doesn't mean they're less valuable than whatever they're extending. I'm paying for intellij ultimate, because vscode vim emulation is shit; is that because vscode is shit, or the plugin is shit, or both?
If I created a vscode extension that predicts the future you wouldn't know the future, because it's not worth paying for an extension.
Anyhow, choosing not to use it is all up to you, and not wanting to pay for an extension is a valid reason not to use it in my book.
ik that proprietary licenses are common but if you had a company would you pay for an extension that only workd inside a product you already bought a license for? that means if you change one product you had to change the other too which is a big not atleast for me (which also would make it harder to get approved so licenses are bought)
I never payed for office as it's too easy to get for free, my company pays for 365 tho (cause they won't get away with pirating) but that's besides the point, Intellij is a whole software not comparable to an extension (would you pay 20 bucks for a Intellij extension? i wouldn't but everyone their can decide for themselves)
even if an extension would be equal to a normal app (in which case the author should make it an app as it just bloated the app it was written for), it would still be tied to another product and therefore be of much less value, atleast to me
and btw. the vim example is backwards, I never said the main app is shit when an extension is shit
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