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JetBrains might not be my friend but they don't hold anywhere near the dev tool monopoly Adobe does for artists. Know what happens if JetBrains starts to blow massive ass? I finally sit down and figure out how to get my terminal editor working with my LSP. Yeah I lose some productivity but not as much as I'd lose by using Visual Studio or fuckn Eclipse.
I think another key difference is everyone can use whatever tool they like and still work on the same codebase. They don't have proprietary file formats that lock in you and your entire team forever.
Also, doesn't the jetbrains license let you continue to use the version that was the latest as of when your license ended. It's a small difference, but also kinda huge.
It's the version from when you paid your annual subscription (or 12 monthly payments ago) plus any bugfixes.
So you buy 4.3.2 and you will always have access to 4.3.Z
2 months later they release 5.0.0. Your subscription let's you use 5.0.0. If you cancel your subscription then can go back to your perpetual version 4.3.Z
At least that's how it's supposed to work
At what point do I get to keep 5.0 instead?
Assuming you keep paying, 12 months from its release if you pay monthly or you'll get a licence for whatever version is newest at the point you renew if you pay yearly
No. I know this because a couple of times my license expired, and 30 days before it does you'll just get a little warning in the IDE - or in tools like Resharper. After that it just stops working.
Iy used to he that, but they're pushing the new subscription model now and i don't think the old one can still be purchased.
If you are interested there is a great repo to get you up an running on neovim without messing with anything. I got LSP support out of the box and took me less than a week to fully transition away from vscode. It's called kickstart and is maintained by one the neovim contributors. I've done minimal tweaking months later.