> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, [...] are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind.
What I find truly bizarre is why you bring this up in this discussion. The mentionned link is about a developper who switch from one proprietary to an open source software, both being free as in free beer.
The rest of your post is about being a fanboy of Jetbrains. Sure you may like it and are free to do so but I don't see what is difficult to understand that other people may have different preferences.
> The amount of time I saw people spend on tuning, fixing, tinkering, debugging and otherwise modifying their .vim or .emacs files
Are you making things up?
I only tinker with my neovim init file whem I want to add a plugin, which is adding one vim-plug line and command and don't take much more time than adding a plugin for another IDE.
Most people have their preferred settings that they migrate from one machine to another. I used an example vim init file from someone else and only did a handful of changes that took me probably less than 10-15 minutes over as many years.
What I find truly bizarre is why you bring this up in this discussion. The mentionned link is about a developper who switch from one proprietary to an open source software, both being free as in free beer.
The rest of your post is about being a fanboy of Jetbrains. Sure you may like it and are free to do so but I don't see what is difficult to understand that other people may have different preferences.
> The amount of time I saw people spend on tuning, fixing, tinkering, debugging and otherwise modifying their .vim or .emacs files
Are you making things up?
I only tinker with my neovim init file whem I want to add a plugin, which is adding one vim-plug line and command and don't take much more time than adding a plugin for another IDE.
Most people have their preferred settings that they migrate from one machine to another. I used an example vim init file from someone else and only did a handful of changes that took me probably less than 10-15 minutes over as many years.