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I've heard that before but I'm skeptic about if it's exactly the same.

It's the same thing if you pay for IntelliJ Pro, then the IDE supports every language and every plugin.

Otherwise the free edition has a number of missing things and it's blocking the installation of plugins that could somewhat compensate.

Does it support .NET? I thought I needed Rider for that.

The only one that is different is Rider, since it has much deeper C# integration (might be others such as DataGrip, but never used it). PyCharm and GoLand are just plugins (same as WebStorm, PhpStorm, etc)

GoLand seems to be lighter than IntelliJ though. I'll try using the plugins to see if the experience is different. Maybe I'm paying too much for the whole suite.

I believe CLion is also different than just IntelliJ + Plugin. At least I've not been able to find a C plugin that mimics it.

technically resharper is way diferent as well but whether you'd call it a ide is "questionable"

Rider runs ReSharper underneath

datagrip is very different from the integrated database/SQL editor included with most jetbrains IDEs. it has more features and is a real pleasure to use. using datagrip is like using a dedicated mp3 player to play your mp3 collection while using pycharm, webstorm, etc., is like using your phone to play your mp3 music collection.

so happy to see jetbrains receive some love here.

My understanding is that intellij is the main IDE and other ones are “crippled” versions of a Intellij. In other words, jetbrains really only builds one IDE, but disabled parts of it to create the “sub” IDEs.

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