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Re:I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium by NaN1352 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:13AM (#31715093)
> 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 I bought FontAwesome 5 while it was in KickStarter, it’s no longer updated (it’s now version 6), but at least I can still fully use the thousands of icons I paid for.

tldr: way too damn expensive.

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Re:I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium by apple4ever on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#31715499)
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.
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