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WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rider is the best C# IDE IMO, works on linux, mac, and of course Windows. Very happy it's now free!

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

I like and been using JetBrains IDEs for years now,
and am/was happily paying for a good product.

However I feel like they've been going backwards in the last year or 2,
it feels less premium,
and more like your a paying beta tester,
since lately I deal with bugs in their IDEs too often to my liking.

But this news kinda scares me,
usually if something is free,
then you are the product,
paying with your data.

Which I can see happen to these IDEs now :/
Especially in this day and age where massive data collection by big tech is sadly normalized, and where coding data likely is wanted to be trained upon by AI companies with the current ongoing hype bubble and all.

If that would start to happen to JetBrains products, I fear for enshitiffication in the forms of:

Losing your privacy
Leaking company secrets

And further once the AI bubble pops,
which will lead to less demand for data,
since there will be less companies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's sick, unfortunately too late, ended up ditching full fat vs, employer wouldn't pay for rider so I just went full into vscode and then vim/helix

What do you use Rider for that can't be easily done via CLI?

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

The question isn't what can't be easily done, but what I prefer. I can compile dotnet code into it's dlls via the cli, I can set up debugging in vscode, but it's a pain. Rider is pre-setup with all of the shortcuts I like, the colors and syntax highlighting I like, and it's been my preferred IDE for years. I like hitting ctrl+shift+b to compile, all of the debug tools it gives, the rundowns, the experience is just clean for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's fair, personally keybindings always struck me as something easier to automate than pay for