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.
EDIT:
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.
Jetbrains Intellij IDEA Ultimate. 100% worth the price.
Well yeah it’s still the best IDE for the JVM around, but I’m really not happy how their focus shifted towards AI and other useless features like themes that waste more space and take control elements away by default. Enshittification is happening, and it makes me think about cancelling my personal subscription.
Big fan of the all products pack.
As a former Eclipse user I can vouch for this as well.
IntelliJ basically killed Eclipse as a major IDE and the reaction from most of its users was “good job”. It’s funny how such a widely hated IDE was dominant for so long.
(Though to be fair, Eclipse helped kill itself with its UI changes)
Haha no
Why not?
Why should I pay a thousand bucks a year for it? I mean have you heard of emacs and neovim?
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.
Subscriptions is even worse :(
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
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. ☺️
Thousands? I pay like $160/year.
For Ultimate?
I was just slightly off, $179.
Your next year will be even cheaper :)
“Why should I pay hundreds of dollars for a powered motor when I have this push mower?”
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.
Drop your scripts for getting similar refactoring support to emacs and neovim
https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/refactoring.nvim