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As great as Jetbrains IDEA is, they are now trying to push their Creative Cloud style suite of several separate tools called Jetbrains Toolbox. My concern is that in the long-term the integrated features of IDEA will be weakened in favour of lots of individual tools for which one needs the toolbox.

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I was concerned about that when they went with the subscription model and started spitting out more 'helper' apps, but so far (as primarily a Pycharm user) I've been really happy about the rate features are rolled out across all the products and the completeness of all the integrated features. More often than not I'm surprised a particular plugin/integration (database access, typescript support, JS/HTML-framework-of-the-moment) is as full featured as it is.

Thing is their suite is pretty good value; I have all of the tools I need to be productive with Java/Python/C# for what, somewhere between 150-250 EUR per year? That isn't bad.

Total agreement. The suite of tools is, for me, a no-brainer. I'm happy to pay.

My concern is not so much about the value, but it's about the risk of fragmentation of what you need across many different IDE tools.

I have it. And I agree...

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