I don't use any Jetbrains product and I have no idea how well-executed this is, but I am pleased to see a relatively smaller company competing against the almost monopoly of Microsoft's VS Code and GitHub.
Err, you're aware that GitLab is MIT and Space is not even pretending to be open, right?
IntelliJ and PyCharm Community are both Apache 2 licensed and are absolutely stellar <https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community> (I mean that they're not crippleware, they're outstanding products that just happen to omit Spring, SQL, and Django support from the Apache 2 versions)
I recently bought the Professional Edition of Pycharm after using it for years. The pro features are nice but nothing I missed. Definitely not Crippleware
I also forgot to include "remote executors" in that list for shops that use docker or similar machine learning setups; I can imagine that's a non-trivial market for PyCharm Pro
vs code could always go this way in the future too. some of their most popular features are closed sourced freeware. they probably would never directly charge but it definitely violates the open source spirit when the guts of your IDE are closed off
Also, the depth of the inspections present in all of the JetBrains products make them absolutely incomparable to any "linter" setup or current LSP implementations. But, relevant to this topic, so too is it some unholy incantations to try and run those same inspections in CI, partially because I think that very concept isn't important to JetBrains and partially because of the indexing required by the JB IDEs that drive everyone starkraving mad as compared to the less intelligent editors that can load a text file in a super big hurry
It's interesting to read this, because from my stats just a few people are using VS Code - most of them use IntelliJ-based IDEs or Vim. I’m a freelancer, so I’ve been working with teammates from many countries, from every continent.
