Posted by kretaceous 3 days ago
Rider saved me some sanity when I had to work with .Net.
Also looks like an online account is required.
if you make a game, then it gets popular what happens ? or some .net api?
I'm always confused by such licensing terms e.g what ended up happening with Unity.
If you're not going to sell it, it's probably not commercial use.
My take would be, when decision to earn money one should buy the license for sure.
I don't think you can somehow pay for previous use and I expect no one will hold it against you.
But at the same time if you "develop non commercially" and you know you will be trying to monetize it most likely it will be hard to prove and no one has resources to catch every such case but remember that you become "big POS" for that.
Not that I believe in that scenario.
Which is probably why they're beginning to change their strategy rn with this move ...
It's just too bad that their UI is going in the direction of VSCode and others, become more... I guess I could say smartphone-like.
How else am I supposed to get convinced into buying it given the (probably more mature) default choice of VS Studio 22?
Reading about the rationale for this move this seems to be precisely their reason too.
Anyway, might try it out after all now given all the fuss ...
(I say this as someone from a Newly Industrialized Country and I easily afford the all product pack)
But yeah, if you work for low rates, then you have to work more hours to pay for your tools.
Most people in general, I would say. I haven’t tried JetBrains editors in a while, and the “developing country” definition is very unclear in my opinion (and also part of why I roll my eyes at the “what about developing countries?” argument sometimes), but I do think the yearly price looks good for WebStorm at least, as someone living in Colombia.
For reference, at the time of writing, the standard Netflix plan costs 26,900 COP a month, which ends up being 322,800 COP yearly. Meanwhile, WebStorm’s first year comes at 298,541.10 COP post USD -> COP conversion - it isn’t an insignificant sum, but if it offers significant added value, I think it’s a fair price, certainly better than the Netflix pricing. The second year is reduced to 237,967.54 COP, and the third to 177,393.99 COP - that last one is even less than what you’d pay for the Netflix basic plan over a year (202,800 COP).