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IDEs used to be extremely expensive back in the 1990s. IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM's Visual age for Java were quite expensive subscription as I
by 2sk21 9mo ago
IDEs used to be extremely expensive back in the 1990s. IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM's Visual age for Java were quite expensive subscription as I recall. subsequently, open source IDEs like Eclipse and VisualStudio seem to have become the norm.
- qingcharles 9mo agoI used to pay a fortune for a full Visual Studio + full MSDN experience every year until I eventually earned a free ride. Wild how much you can get for free now. Amazing free IDEs. Every LLM offers excellent free plans if you are on a zero budget. $10/mo GitHub Copilot is an absurd deal that has to be a loss in terms of pure compute cost.
- abeyer 9mo agoVisual Studio has never been open source, though some of the underlying build tools and compilers are. Visual Studio Code is a different thing... and claims to be open source, but by intent and approach really is closer to source available.
- aeonik 9mo agoCompilers and programming languages themselves used to be hideously expensive as well.