Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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Good opportunity for Jetbrains to jump in. Maybe if they MIT licensed their community-edition tools.
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Jetbrains have gone the opposite direction unfortunately. The latest version of PyCharm came with the announcement that PyCharm Community is being discontinued. Instead, they will provide just one PyCharm (the closed source one) formerly PyCharm Professional, that can operated in a Basic (Free) mode, or a Pro (Licenced) mode. Also, some features that were free in Community edition will be moved to the Pro mode in the new PyCharm.
It doesn't affect me personally because my workplace pays for a pro subscription for me, but I used PyCharm Community for 4 years during uni and I'm sad it's going.
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Wow, that's so sad. I loved Pycharm.
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Not sure if you read this blog post: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/04/unified-pycharm/
Rest assured – our commitment to open-source development remains as strong as ever. The Community Edition codebase will stay public on GitHub, and we’ll continue to maintain and update it. We’ll also provide an easy way to build PyCharm from source via GitHub Actions.
PyCharm is - like all JetBrains IDEs - based on intellij-community and the "Pro" stuff just some fancy pre-installed plugin that requires a license.
Alternatively, you may choose to manually switch to the new PyCharm immediately and keep using everything you have now for free, plus the support for Jupyter notebooks.
So all community functionallities will also be available in the unified edition for free.
Also the Pro license - which you can also get 4 free in like 10 different ways - pricing is extremely fair: A license costs $100-60 for an individual, which is cheaper than most streaming subscriptions...
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Just came across another option. For those getting blocked by MSFT: https://theia-ide.org/
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personally, after trying theia, i know its good, but its extremely hard to configure some things like i want to, because even though it is the same editor as they put it, i cant do some things the same way. Found issues about this, turns out they are from 2019. Kind of sucks.
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University students get free pro licenses for jetbrains IDEs I think
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Yes you're right, they do. But 10 years ago when I was studying, my university (in Australia) was not on their list of valid academic institutions.
I still have access to my uni email address, and earlier this year I found indeed I could use it to get access to a free Jetbrains student licence.
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i've been on the zed wagon for months
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