Replacement for RubyMine
After russians attacked my native city this morning I want to replace RubyMine, made by russian company JetBrains, with an alternative.
Can you advice a replacement for Ruby on Rails Development?
I don't know about the company's exact structure and where their profit ends up but given their rather small headquarters in Prague in contrast to their huge offices in Saint Petersburg, it's probably fair to say that a significant share of that money is invested - and taxed - in Russia.
Hmm...
Having been a happy customer and user of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm products for years now, I’m myself still rather ambivalent on this issue.
I appreciate them having spoken out against the war, but so far they haven’t taken any active measures that put their money where their mouth is.
Unless they do so, I’ll probably cancel my license once it’s up for renewal and resign to using (inferior) products by other vendors.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
That’s what I meant by putting their money where their mouth is.
I don't do Java for backend anymore, thus no need for IntelliJ. OK, Android Studio is based on IntelliJ too, at least it's not paid product.
I'm thinking to purchase Goland license, but most of my Go coder fellows convince me that VSCode or nvim + a bunch of plugins is more than enough.
But if you're happy with RubyMine please continue using it and supporting JetBrains. They're ok. https://twitter.com/jetbrains/status/1496786254494670851
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
Also, are you sure you want to politicize your work at that level? If yes, then you also shouldn't be using AWS, Azure, or Google cloud, as all of them do business with countries you won't like and with weapons companies. Did you know some nuclear submarines run on Windows XP? Bye, Microsoft. Btw, they also pay taxes in Russia. https://officesnapshots.com/2018/09/04/microsoft-offices-mos...
I guess your only remaining choice will be to go all in on open source.
Whether or not to continue to support a company that arguably pays significant taxes into the - only very slightly figurative - war chest of a country actively waging war right now, is a valid question.
Then, there’s the nasty aspect of Russian intelligence agencies figuring out (or having already done so) that with a widely used IDE product they have a valuable asset at their disposal.
For work, where you need to get productive fast, you can't beat VS Code. But, I recently switched from VS Code to Doom Emacs, and have been loving it. Doom Emacs has pretty good support for Ruby/Rails, might be worth looking into :)