For the first time, beloved IDE JetBrains Rider will be available for free
by Samuel Axon from Ars Technica - All content on (#6RRD6)
The integrated development environment (IDE) Rider by JetBrains is now available for free for the first time ever.
After trialing non-commercial free licenses with other products like RustRover and Aqua, JetBrains has introduced a similar option for Rider. It also says this is a permanent situation, not a limited-time initiative.
In a blog post announcing the change, JetBrains' Ekaterina Ryabukha acknowledges that there are numerous cases where people use an IDE without any commercial intent-for example, hobbyists, open source developers, and educators or students. She also cites a Stack Overflow survey that 68 percent of professional developers "code outside of work as a hobby."