You can, they are not built in but bundled

Depends on the resources required and how much benefit it brings to the average user.

+1

I use Visual Studio Code when I need to edit one files or two. JetBrains IDE when I’m starting a programming session.

A lot of them are dependencies of other plugins.

Stuff like icons support, and every little feature. Neovim is extremely minimalist to start, so you need plugins just to get something as simple as a scrollbar lol

Things like git status of files and file lines, all your LSPs, syntax highlighting (for each language you work with), file explorer, you name it, there’s a lot.

But what’s nice about nvim is for any of these given features, there’s numerous options to pick from. Theres probably a dozen options to choose from for what kind of scrollbar you want in your editor, as an example.

So you end up with a huge amount of plugins in the end, for all your custom stuff you have configured.

You have to setup yourself (though theres a lot of very solid copy pasteable recipes for each feature):

• Scrollbar
• Tabs(if you want em)
• bookmarking
• every LSP
• treesitter
• navigation (possibly multiple of them, I use both a file tree, telescope, and harpoon)
• file history stuff
• git integrations, including integrating it with the numerous other plugins you use (many of them can integrate with git for stuff like status icons)
• Code commenting/uncommenting
• Code comment tags (IE TODO/BUG/HACK/etc)
• your package manager is also a package (I like lazy for wicked fast open speeds, neovim opens in under 1s for me)
• hotkey management (I like to use which-key)
• prose plugins (lots of great options here too, I use nvim for more than just coding!)
• neorg, so I can use nvim for taking notes, scheduling stuff, etc too
• debugger via nvim-dap
• debugger UI via nvim-dap-ui
• lualine, which is a popular statusline plugin people like to have at the bottom of their IDE for general file info
• new-file-template which lets me create templates for new files by extension (IE when I make a .cs file and start editting it, I can pick from numerous templates I’ve made to start from, same for .ts, .lua, etc etc)
• git conflict, which can detect and work with detected git merge conflict sections in any type of file and give me hotkeys to do stuff like pick A / B / Both / Neither, that sorta stuff

The list goes on and on haha

How is that relevant to “That’s on you for using Java”?

I freakin love Java

d for delete.

Pyright is the open source language server behind pylance and it works just fine in my neovim setup (in case you hadn’t recognized the commands and the logo). There’s also basedpyright if you have beef with pyright.

Protip: let someone else manage your neovim setup: just use lazyvim.org

Autocad costs that much because Autodesk behaves anti-competitively and has locked firms into their proprietary tooling / file formats / training and the firms have no choice but to keep paying them.

Their predatory behaviour towards the engineering industry is literally why I taught myself programming and switched to software development.

They are a prime example of why you shouldn’t build your company around closed source proprietary software, but open source software that can be forked or self hosted in a worst case scenario.

You mean subscribe to them right? You can’t buy Jetbrains products to use in perpetuity. I pay for their all products pack. They have a 40% continuity discount after two years, which is nice. I would agree they aren’t terribly expensive for commercial software, but they are competing in a space full of free and/or open source alternatives, unlike many production-level commercial softwares.

That being said, their AI integration features are awful across the board, whether it’s their own AI or copilot.

And while I much prefer jetbrains stuff to something like vscode, it’s way more about UI uniformity for me. VS Code extensions outside the top 20 tend to slap themselves wherever they want, with html/css dialogues that don’t fit the UI, and there’s often like 6 versions of an extension that’s like “this one is deprecated, but also the other one is deprecated, but the new one is made by microsoft but it’s actually 3 extensions now.” Whereas generally jetbrains extensions fit within my action panel, toolbar items, and can move widgets to different sides of the UI so that version control stuff, code analysis/structure stuff, external integration/database stuff, and project trees all get their own dedicated part of the workspace

True. Doesn’t solve the other issue tho. Heck, I work on rust a lot, and rustrover is free

And they get cheaper the longer you hold the license

Yes, if you use some of them, if you use more of them they become more expensive so the toolbox is a good idea. Still expensive, but usually if you need this you either are a power user or you make money on what you are doing.

If your work can’t afford less than $20/seat/month for business-critical software, I’d start looking for a new job because your paychecks are about to dry up, anyway.

Tell your boss that it’s even more expensive to have your foot up his ass. And tell it like Red Foreman

Core development tools licenses are too expensive? That’s an odd company or from a very low standard country?