Re:How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Fe...
by acomjean on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:48AM
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I use php storm because it works really well out of the box.
> I want to tools to be excellent, certainly, and I don't want to have to spend a lot of time fixing
Thats what drew me to the JetBrains product line. The default functionality and polish feels good compared with eclipse which is what I usually use when I'm in java. I still jump into emacs for some file editing because it feels right. But eclipse still seem strangely odd to use (that could just be the whole java toolchain thing). I spend a certain amount of time on learning the tools and learning how to configure. The curve on emacs/eclipse configuration is steep. oddly I donated for me emacs / eclipse since I use them enough.
> If you use proprietary software, you're at the mercy of the vendor for features..
Something I kinda knew, even as a paying customer, but this change really brings it home. Especially since we now have to keep paying to keep using.
Thats what drew me to the JetBrains product line. The default functionality and polish feels good compared with eclipse which is what I usually use when I'm in java. I still jump into emacs for some file editing because it feels right. But eclipse still seem strangely odd to use (that could just be the whole java toolchain thing). I spend a certain amount of time on learning the tools and learning how to configure. The curve on emacs/eclipse configuration is steep. oddly I donated for me emacs / eclipse since I use them enough.
> If you use proprietary software, you're at the mercy of the vendor for features..
Something I kinda knew, even as a paying customer, but this change really brings it home. Especially since we now have to keep paying to keep using.