For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.
None of the free alternatives do everything I need.
I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.
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This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.
Why should I pay a thousand bucks a year for it? I mean have you heard of emacs and neovim?
Drop your scripts for getting similar refactoring support to emacs and neovim
https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/refactoring.nvim
Yes, of course I’ve heard of those tools. I use vim all the time as well as other editors like VS Code and Kate.
I just thought you had other more technical reasons besides “costs money”.
It costs too much and has a subscription, that’s not my taste.
You mentioned VS Code, have you seen VSCodium?
That makes sense.
Yes, of course I’ve heard of VS Codium.
Thousands? I pay like $160/year.
For Ultimate?
I was just slightly off, $179.
Your next year will be even cheaper :)
Perhaps purchasing as a company. For me as a person the everything pack is under $300/year. And repeat subscriptions get a discount, so I’ll pay even less for it next year.
Ugh. Subscriptions.
Their subscription model is nice. You will always own the last version you got with your subscription. You just won’t get new versions until you resub.
Oh, this is good to know. But then, why not pay $20 once and stop paying until the next version is out? Can you do that?
Because if you keep the subscription, the payment is lower (don’t remember, how much lower, half or less), and versions come more often than once a year
It might make sense if you only re-subscribe if something really big changes, which is almost never, I guess
But if big changes occur almost never, why pay for a subscription?
Originally I paid because I wanted to support the product, now the product is not as great as it used to be, so maybe there is none
I don’t actually know.
In general, I agree. However it’s pretty much better than all of the free offerings and better than many of the more expensive ones.
There aren’t any can’t live without features. There are several very nice to have on so.
Sorry I disagree. There are valid reasons for software with subscriptions, but an editor ain’t one. Much less $20+ a month.
It isn’t just an editor, though. But you do you. ☺️
I understand that. It’s a full-fledged IDE. Visual Studio can (or used to?) cost hundreds of dollars too. But I miss the days when you just bought software and that was it. What will happen when you stop paying monthly? Or what if you don’t need the bleeding edge and you’ve shelled $900 in three years, for a product that should have cost $499? That’s the thing. Subscriptions suck.
But yeah. You do you, and I do me.
Having paid for Visual Studio in the past at $1500, and the requisite MSDN subscription at $2000/year so that I could have useful help files, the actually $600 over three years for all of JetBrains’ software is a steal. Subscriptions aren’t new, they’re just more prevalent now.
Holy smokes. Thanks for sharing.
“Why should I pay hundreds of dollars for a powered motor when I have this push mower?”