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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good opportunity for Jetbrains to jump in. Maybe if they MIT licensed their community-edition tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

i've been on the zed wagon for months

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Jetbrains have gone the opposite direction unfortunately. The latest version of PyCharm came with the announcement that PyCharm Community is being discontinued. Instead, they will provide just one PyCharm (the closed source one) formerly PyCharm Professional, that can operated in a Basic (Free) mode, or a Pro (Licenced) mode. Also, some features that were free in Community edition will be moved to the Pro mode in the new PyCharm.

It doesn't affect me personally because my workplace pays for a pro subscription for me, but I used PyCharm Community for 4 years during uni and I'm sad it's going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Wow, that's so sad. I loved Pycharm.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Not sure if you read this blog post: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/04/unified-pycharm/

Rest assured – our commitment to open-source development remains as strong as ever. The Community Edition codebase will stay public on GitHub, and we’ll continue to maintain and update it. We’ll also provide an easy way to build PyCharm from source via GitHub Actions.

PyCharm is - like all JetBrains IDEs - based on intellij-community and the "Pro" stuff just some fancy pre-installed plugin that requires a license.

Alternatively, you may choose to manually switch to the new PyCharm immediately and keep using everything you have now for free, plus the support for Jupyter notebooks.

So all community functionallities will also be available in the unified edition for free.

Also the Pro license - which you can also get 4 free in like 10 different ways - pricing is extremely fair: A license costs $100-60 for an individual, which is cheaper than most streaming subscriptions...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just came across another option. For those getting blocked by MSFT: https://theia-ide.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

University students get free pro licenses for jetbrains IDEs I think

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yes you're right, they do. But 10 years ago when I was studying, my university (in Australia) was not on their list of valid academic institutions.

I still have access to my uni email address, and earlier this year I found indeed I could use it to get access to a free Jetbrains student licence.