Jetbrains succeeds because of their products, not their advertising. Mostly, I suppose. It was the mayan end of the world sale in 2012 that lowered the price point enough for me to make my first purchase from them.
They're probably the only tool that I pay money for, and I'm generally happy to do so, because I get a ton of value from it.
My only complaint is in a polyglot environment it can be painful to have multiple jetbrains ides running in the same project root.
A number of years ago they shipped all of the different products as plugins to intellij. unfortunately at some point that stopped. I wish they resolve it, because it's slowly driving me to vscode.
> A number of years ago they shipped all of the different products as plugins to intellij. unfortunately at some point that stopped. I wish they resolve it, because it's slowly driving me to vscode.
Did they stop? I still use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate for most languages (Go, Java, Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript). I had to use Rider for C#, AppCode for Swift, and CLion for C/C++, but those are the only special cases afaik, or are those languages the ones you use & have problems with?
The plugin updates are sometimes a bit behind the dedicated IDEs in terms of feature releases which is annoying but I think you can often download an EAP build to get around that.
I've been under the impression that there are significant capability differences between any of the plugins and the corresponding product
I mainly use goland & clion, and clion definitely doens't have an equivalent plugin. It's been a long time since I've tried to use intellij though, so perhaps my impressions are antiquated.
This is same for me. It was great value in 2012 and product was good enough to keep using. I subscribed to Resharper before that but now use the other products like datalink. The fact that a personal license can be used at work also helped my adoption of the tools.
> The fact that a personal license can be used at work also helped my adoption of the tools.
Same here, and because of that I sub to the All Products bundle, while if I had to convince my employer it would be for PyCharm only. The Personal All Products license is $50 more per year than a Corporate Single Language license.
Gaining a perpetual license after 1 year of subscription also makes the subscription an easier pill for me to swallow.
They're probably the only tool that I pay money for, and I'm generally happy to do so, because I get a ton of value from it.
My only complaint is in a polyglot environment it can be painful to have multiple jetbrains ides running in the same project root.
A number of years ago they shipped all of the different products as plugins to intellij. unfortunately at some point that stopped. I wish they resolve it, because it's slowly driving me to vscode.