Oh absolutely, if someone perfers emacs or vim, VS, VSCode, some JetBrains IDE. Punch cards.
Whatever makes them happy and productive, that's great. I've seen people use Vim and its crazy how productive some people are with it.
My point is complaining about the price of some software like it's blocking them from doing anything. They spend all this money on all this hardware and software, but when it comes to development, oh it costs too much I don't want to pay $90 for something to earn money...
The initial [0] only mentioned the steep price in passing, and primarily lamented the inefficiency of the design. I'm not even sure from that phrasing that implying isn't a paying user, even if they seem to care about people who wouldn't fork the money for the editor.
Whatever makes them happy and productive, that's great. I've seen people use Vim and its crazy how productive some people are with it.
My point is complaining about the price of some software like it's blocking them from doing anything. They spend all this money on all this hardware and software, but when it comes to development, oh it costs too much I don't want to pay $90 for something to earn money...