It is and it does.

Except using software without updates nowadays is a very bad idea because of the Internet and security being a real concern.

It was built on yearly releases of software instead, also known as yearly subscriptions.

Not quite - you get a perpetual license for the version that was released a year before you cancelled your subscription. And for most languages this is not really practical anyway, as they get relatively frequent updates that require IDE updates, so you will just stay subscribed.

This was a fairly low business risk, high PR value move by JetBrains.

Then use golang

Your Second argument is false as well because they don’t get to pass on manufacturing and designing cost to the workers! That cost should be passed onto the customer.

This cost is passed onto the consumer, just from what I’ve seen the value of the work calculations tend to be based on the price of the product, which actually includes this “passing on”.

The decision to adopt Chromium style versions was an interesting one for sure…

Right, but that’s nothing compared to Gnome 2->3 or KDE 3->4.

Just a bigger update, should be fine. AFAIK they did not do any major overhaul from a regular user’s perspective, but there are some pretty big changes under the hood. If you use a distro with regular releases, this will probably be included in the next one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement

source lines of code

Rust: works

Zig: segmentation fault

I mean it worked for long enough 🤷‍♂️

But you need Windows to compile and test older .NET stuff, even if you write the code in notepad.

Depends on the ecosystem around the language - there are tools that just plain don’t work or work poorly on Windows.

Alternatively you could try developing a .NET Framework v4 app on Linux, if the OS doesn’t matter (no, mono is not equivalent).

Interesting, in the EU it’s been fine.

Revolut

They’re infinitely more likely to indirectly get back to the locals than if they were to go directly to a corporation on the other side of the country.

I get what you’re saying, but the profits going to locals is objectively better for the community than them going to large corporations.

In short, local stores cannot stay afloat anymore when 30% of their customers disappear.