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(sorry if this isn't the right community for this)

I noticed that Jetbrains has a discount for users of "competitor products", and was wondering if anyone here has experience with it?

I've been considering buying CLion, so this caught my eye. However, I can't even think of any C++ IDE that isn't free. I exclusively use Sublime Text for my C++ work, but I assume that's not common enough to count?

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

If I had to guess, they would be competing against Visual Studio mainly. So they may offer a discount if you were coming from a Visual Studio background. They may still offer you a discount but since the policy doesn’t list what IDE’s they would do so for it is hard to say.

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

This seems more focused on commercial license holders. here paying for your ide is not that uncommon, and also the amount of revenue to be gained is a lot higher. That being said I always found it a bit weird that jetbrains didnt make clion free for non commercial use as they did with pycharm/intelij.