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Are you ignoring the 'perpetual fallback license'? I would expect you'd welcome it if it is such a strong point for you. You can pay once for JetBrains IDE and never ever update (or even access older version) and keep using it after that.


> Are you ignoring the 'perpetual fallback license'?

I'm not ignoring it, I'm just not a JetBrains user for reasons outside of cost. I happen to like emacs and donate to different parts of the emacs ecosystem.

Most of my development is scripting and writing a lot of glue code which doesn't benefit tremendously from an IDE. If I found myself working on large enterprise apps or doing a lot of java programming, I'd give JetBrains a look.




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