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Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use by talldayo on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:22PM (#41936994)
They also pulled the plug on free support for their Rust plugin which really upset me. Jetbrains is intent on making you pay before you get IDE functionality; I'd rather use VS Code or Zed these days.
Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use by NoboruWataya on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:50PM (#41937282)
RustRover is free for non-commercial use though?

I liked the look of Zed when I first tried it out, but I read that it seems to have a strong cloud/AI focus which I don't want or need. I have started investing a bit of time in getting Vim working with all the bells and whistles and now it's a decent fallback when I can't use a JetBrains IDE for whatever reason.

Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use by talldayo on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:10PM (#41937999)
I'll just be honest, I don't like Zed at all. I much preferred Atom when it was a thing, and I mostly use Zed begrudgingly because the other graphical editors tend to get sluggish.

My preferred IDE was what Jetbrains had before with IDEA - you could plug in basic support for the languages you want and edit as you go. I don't want to set up a superheavy environment with all the bells and whistles, I want Intellisense and tree-sitter in a relatively zippy interface. That was what Jetbrains offered before, and it's what I can't have anymore.

Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use by vunderba on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:06PM (#41938643)
It's probably the most ridiculous nitpick in the history of ever, but I really hate the "sign in" button at the top right of Zed, particularly there's no way to hide it even through some configuration file. It's distracting to me and I want zero cloud connectivity associated with my text editor.
Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use by conradfr on Thursday October 24, 2024 @01:46PM (#41937758)
They have always done that when they make a specific IDE for a language.