I don't know the state of the language server for newer php versions, but intellisense for vscode is too taxing on the CPU for relatively large projects (20k+ lines of code)
Already Chairs, Desk and Rent for every engineer is more expensive than 200 USD every year. Their salary is many hundred times 200 USD. I pay more for coffee and water that they can get for free every year.
Independent devs without income can get PHPStorm at much lower rates.
Notebooks in Brazil are almost three times as expensive as abroad, internet costs are through the roof here as well as living costs...
I thought this through, I just have a harder reality than you I guess
And if you are an individual, the license is just 89 USD.
If you are an individual contractor, then maybe you quality for a startup discount? This also gives you 50%: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#personal?billing=yea...
They also have an Early Access Program that you try out beta releases, and they are free of cost.
Individual license starts at $89, and fall to $71 in the first renewal, then to $53 onwards. So I think it is not that expensive. YMMV.
In my part of the world it is, too. But I don't think that's the case for _every_ engineer worldwide.
First, that $200 rate is for teams; independent devs can pay a significantly lower rate (the catch is, you have to pay it personally, not expense it or be reimbursed by an employer).
And even for teams, $200 a year is nothing. If you can afford to hire devs in a first world country (US/EU/Aus/etc), you can afford tools for them. NO employer you should possibly consider working for is going to quibble over the license fee; not when they're already paying 1000 times that in fully loaded costs in salary/rent/overheads/benefits/etc.
If you can't find $200 for a tool to help you do your job, you're not really a professional. (Again, in a 1st world country.)
Why pay $ amount per year when there are great open source products available?
The list goes on, but gratis isn't always better just because you don't need to pull out your wallet.
In general choosing open source saves you time with yearly licease management, licease audits and removes the risk of surprise price increases and product shutdown.
Commercial support can be invaluable and can provide more value over community support. Commercial support for a code editor is wasteful in terms of cost/value and wasteful timewise (who is calling spending time about a macro feature not working).
They are paid for by future development and / or increased adoption.
Take the most popular open source editor (vscode). Do you think microsoft is getting value from this open source product? Why didn't they charge a yearly licease fee instead of open sourcing it? They were probably more interested in increased adoption...
Not about corporations doing open source as advertising stunt.
Which is precisely why anything I produce, is either commercial or under GPL.
The thing I do not agree is that you have to pay for tools in order to be a professional. That is quite elitist. People make careers out of free platforms like Linux so for an IDE is not asking much to have a good tool for free. The community benefits from labor put into developing a free tool.
Absolutely not! You don't have to pay, and there's tons of free tools which are top rate.
What I said is that if you're a professional, you're able to pay for the tools that are worth it. If Phpstorm is worth it (and I think it is, but many devs I respect feel otherwise), $200 is deeply affordable by Western standards.
As a professional, you should have a budget for things like software licenses, books, donations to open source projects you really like, etc., whether that comes out of your funds as a consultant, or team's budget, etc. If your employer is too stingy to cover things like Phpstorm licenses...they're not treating you like a professional.
(Again, in first world/Western countries. Budgets and pay scales are different in some places!)
I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but that was precisely what you said.
Elaborating, I agree with you, reinvestment is really important to improve work and product quality.
If you have the money to spend on tools, but think Linux or VS Code is best, that's fine.
If OS X would be better for you, but you use Linux because you can't afford the tools you need, that's a problem.
Being able to find the money for something doesn't mean you have to spend the money. At the price point of a few hundred dollars a year or less, my concern is what's best, not what's cheapest. The company I work for will happily buy a Phpstorm license for any dev who wants one, but some are happy with VS Code, and one holdout is still using NetBeans. Nothing wrong with that!
I can't imagine having to justify a subscription to IntelliJ at this workplace. At least I imagine you can bring your own license to Jetbrains on a work computer here, at least that is my understanding and I won't ask anyone lest they say I am wrong!
Just in IT it is now fashionable to feel entitled to earn money without buying tools, then comes dual licenses, closing doors or acquisitions because devs don't pay supermarket with pull requests.
- The yearly cost is purely for updates. Meaning you could just pay one time, get updates for a year and then continue using whatever version you have. - For small teams they offer a 50% discount (less than 10 people, in business less than 5 years) - If this is perhaps an open source project you can get it for free.
I got sucked into the Jetbrains family because of just how good their PhpStorm is. Especially in regards to refactoring and debugging tools.
I only wish their Javascript tools were anywhere near as good as their Php tools.
You get the version available when you pay, and then you get a year of updates, which you can only continue using if you renew the license.
So you can only use the version available as of the moment you pay for a license.
I guess this is partially because JavaScript is a much harder language to write good tooling for, but I'm open for other explanations.
Don't they fall under the cheaper individual license?
[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#personal?billing=yea...
[1]: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206386064-What...