| ▲ | 2sk21 11 hours 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 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
I 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 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Visual 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 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Compilers and programming languages themselves used to be hideously expensive as well. | ||