@UncleIroh true but if you read the license, the version you have is a year old. So if you buy license in 2024, keep paying one year(minimum to retain the license), then unsubscribe, the version you have rights to is the one from 2024, not the one from 2025 when you decided to cancel subscription. This is another way they fuck you. Personally, I use maybe 5% of the IDE functionality so I have ZERO reasons to pay. I would use VScode/OpenCode but the UI it crap. I cannot stand it.

@Justicar

I gave VSCode a decent try but never got on with it. Electron-based apps are mostly dogshit.

I've not tried KATE but as a long-time sublime-text user I'm good with that.

@Justicar

Also most people use a fraction of a complex IDE, and since most of the upgrades are AI related there's no point getting sucked into riding the licensing choo-choo train.

@UncleIroh my main gripe with vscode/vscodium is that everything is done via that autocomplete input. there are no menus, nothing one can navigate through. so i literally have no idea what there is, where it is, what it does.. also i think it is not even possible to adjust syntax highlighting color scheme and things like that. it was possible in atom before they shut it down.sublime is famous. if you're on apple, that is the way to go.

@Justicar

Not on the apple train either, I ditched that a decade ago. I have an iMac for the kids, but I introduced them to computers by getting them a raspberry pi. They loved it, took to it immediately

Linux has been my daily driver for years, debian and fedora mostly via QubesOS. The only time I ever use Windows is on work hardware, and even then I live in WSL wherever possible.

@UncleIroh i read Zed is gaining traction as vs code "killer". Give it a go, maybe you'll like it.

@UncleIroh KATE is not bad. Reminds me of Netbeans from ages ago. At least on windows. On linux it might look better.

@UncleIroh @Justicar @Justicar I used to be a Jetbrains user for previous work, and I always liked their IDEs' tools. I've not used one in a while though. VSCode is not for me.

@DoubleD @UncleIroh which ide/editor are you using nowadays and for which languages? I used pspad for js and php. Moved to netbeans, then switched to golang and moved to jetbrains goland.

@Justicar @UncleIroh I have to use VSCode and Eclipse on Windows machines for work still when I'm working in TS, JS, or Java. ++CLI scripting for most things, of course.

@DoubleD @UncleIroh oh man, eclipse. now that's a name i have not heard in ages :D

@Justicar @DoubleD

Ha, I've not used Eclipse for a long minute.

For me, IDE's center around java/c#/python/ts/js. There have been others along the way, including c++ in the distant past. And as mentioned by DD, bash, powershell and sql can be done in mostly any text editor.