JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model

esarjeant writes: For many Java developers, IntelliJ has been our predominant IDE. JetBrains is looking to make their tools easier easier to buy and use by switching to a subscription program. Their plan is to have people pay a monthly/yearly fee for access to the tools instead of upgrading when they're ready. Fortunately, if your subscription lapses it looks like you'll have 30 days to check all your stuff in. How does NetBeans look now? Many members of various developer communities are pushing back against this change: "For a developer with an unstable income, it might be perfectly fine to stay on an older version of the software until they've stashed enough cash to afford the upgrade. That will no longer work." JetBrains has acknowledged the feedback, and say they will act on it.

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I can has org.eclipse.m2e.logback.feature?

[lucm]

Anyway, I am genuinely interested in which features/properties for any of the above-mentioned languages are lacking in Eclipse and make it worth switching to another IDE for that language.

Here's the Eclipse Experience.

1) Go to their website.
2) Click on download.
3) Spend the next 20 minutes trying to understand which of the 14 editions you need *
4) Give up and download Netbeans.

* bonus round: click on one of the edition then look at the "Detailed features list", and be amazed to see... a list of java namespaces. Very convenient.