They include several full-blown IDEs, plus a couple plugins for Visual Studio. These tools cover Ruby, Python, Node, Java, C#, C++, and more. For the cost of literally less than one dollar per work day, or 0.3% of the average developer income-less than one full day’s work-you can have access to every single developer desktop tool JetBrains makes. The average developer in the US, according to Google, makes $85,000 per year. I want to you to stop and think for a second.

These people are overreacting to the point of being ridiculous. As of this writing, one of the top stories on several news aggregators is even titled “How JetBrains lost years of customer loyalty in just a few hours.” The tools will stop working if you stop paying for them, which is obviously insane, because what if you need to edit things later on? Quite a few even are whining about how any self-respecting developer should be using open-source tools, 1 which in this context seems more about implying that any cost for tooling is too high rather than having a stance on libre software.

The pricing is too high and unfair, they complain. The reaction from developers has been consistent: viscerally negative. For $12/month, you can get access to one of their products, or for less than double that, $20/month (discounted to $150/year for current customers), you can get access to all of their developer tools. Yesterday, JetBrains changed that and announced JetBrains Toolbox. Previously, you could buy their products for anything from $50 (for WebStorm) to $675 (for ReSharper Ultimate), with lower prices in most cases for yearly upgrades. Yesterday, JetBrains announced new pricing for their line of developer tooling.

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