I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn and how long it really takes to make software, are so resistant to paying <i>anything</i> for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind.<p>Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don&#x27;t mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way. For individual use, most of them are &lt;$100&#x2F;year.<p>In years past I saw this same struggle with IntelliJ vs Eclipse or even vim&#x2F;emacs. The amount of time I saw people spend on tuning, fixing, tinkering, debugging and otherwise modifying their .vim or .emacs files or their various incompatible Eclipse plugins (eg famously there were 2 big big plugins for Eclipse at one point and neither of them completely worked). At least with vim&#x2F;emacs it works over an SSH connection but Eclipse?<p>Why are so many resistant so other people earning a living particularly when the payoff (ie time-saved) is so easily quantifiable? And why do people who generally earn so much value their time so little?