Students — JetBrains Digital Leaflets (2024)

FAQs

Is JetBrains better than VSCode? ›

However, with JetBrains perfectly consistent linting engine coupled with its unbreakable refactoring process, I must say that if code factoring and refactoring is important to you and your workflow, I would definitely recommend JetBrains.

Learning how to code or teaching others? Get your free educational license for any JetBrains IDE, including Rider, CLion, PyCharm, and others.

Students and teachers are eligible to use the JetBrains All Products Pack (which includes IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, ReSharper Ultimate, as well as our other IDEs and tools) free of charge for educational purposes. Educational licenses cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Students and academic staff members are eligible to use all JetBrains tools free, upon verification of their university/college domain email or ISIC card.

Is premium Jetbrains IDE IDEA worth it? For a professional developer, yes. Otherwise the community edition is fine. Incidentally, Jetbrains offers 30 day free trials on all their paid products.

And with tools like Zed, the future of human-AI coding collaboration looks bright. Key takeaways: Zed is a fast, AI-powered code editor challenging VS Code. It leverages CPU and GPU for smooth performance.

Is a free educational license perpetual? No, licenses for students and faculty are valid only for one year. Perpetual fallback licenses are not provided.

Community Edition is free and open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0. It provides all the basic features for JVM and Android development. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is commercial, distributed with a 30-day trial period.

No, free educational licenses are to be used strictly for non-commercial educational purposes. If you're employed at a commercial company, consider asking your employer to purchase a business subscription for the JetBrains products you need.

Licenses for Open Source Development

If you develop open source software, you can get JetBrains tools for free! JetBrains supports core contributors of non-commercial open source projects by providing them with professional coding tools free of charge.

How to get Ultimate IntelliJ for free? ›

Start a free trial

In the Licenses dialog that opens when you start IntelliJ IDEA, click the Start Free 30-Day Trial button. You will be redirected to the JetBrains website where you will see a confirmation that your trial has started.

If you're currently enrolled in any premium course or our comprehensive University subscription at M. academy, you now have an exclusive opportunity to access JetBrains PhpStorm, ...completely free for 6 months! And also get 40% off future license renewals.

PyCharm Professional

We value the vibrant Python community, and that's why we proudly offer the PyCharm Community Edition for free, as our open-source contribution to support the Python ecosystem.

Other important factors to consider when researching alternatives to PyCharm include project management and version control. We have compiled a list of solutions that reviewers voted as the best overall alternatives and competitors to PyCharm, including Eclipse, AWS Cloud9, The Jupyter Notebook, and Kite.

PyCharm excels with its Python-specific features, ideal for developers immersed in Python's ecosystem. Conversely, VSCode's appeal lies in its versatility, light footprint, and extensive extensions, suitable for multi-language projects.

Other important factors to consider when researching alternatives to Visual Studio Code include extensions and projects. We have compiled a list of solutions that reviewers voted as the best overall alternatives and competitors to Visual Studio Code, including Notepad++, Sublime Text, UltraEdit, and Atom.

The best alternatives to VS Code are Nova, small, and vscode. dev. If these 3 options don't work for you, we've listed over 10 alternatives below.

For 90% or more developers, VS Code is a better choice for solving the never-ending debate of Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a cross-platform code editor that can easily run on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

How Rider Compares to Visual Studio. Rider from JetBrains only has a paid version, not a free one. This differs from Visual Studio, which also offers a community edition, of course, lacking several features of its enterprise counterpart. It's features are listed on JetBrains site here.