> For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.
Except as a developer you need one app, then another, and another… soon enough you’ll be paying 10 x 50$/year.
And paying a sub for software is repugnant to me. I bought FontAwesome 5 while it was in KickStarter, it’s no longer updated (it’s now version 6), but at least I can still fully use the thousands of icons I paid for.
Yeah exactly. They are just too expensive. I'm happy to pay for things that I believe are worth it, but especially with yearly subscriptions I don't see the value equation meeting it for these IDEs.
Except as a developer you need one app, then another, and another… soon enough you’ll be paying 10 x 50$/year.
And paying a sub for software is repugnant to me. I bought FontAwesome 5 while it was in KickStarter, it’s no longer updated (it’s now version 6), but at least I can still fully use the thousands of icons I paid for.
tldr: way too damn expensive.