Following the announcement of Visual Studio for Mac’s retirement, for the next 65 hours we are offering a 65% discount on new subscriptions for Rider, the only cross-platform .NET IDE.
The offer is valid for a new one-year personal subscription purchased before 6:00 am UTC, September 4, 2023.
Rider is great, it’s 100% worth the money.
Switched over to it this year from VS, it’s so good in comparison. There’s some things that aren’t as nice (the CPU/memory graphs in VS are actually nice and handy). But overall, an upgrade.
I’m happy enough with VS on Windows, but I just dug up an old laptop of mine, replaced its bad hard drive, and installed Pop! OS on it, so this discount comes at a great time.
My subscription expires in two days so this has worked out rather well for me.
Do they not offer a simple purchase option, only subscriptions?
Yes, included in the 12 month license is the entitlement to that version forever.
12 months of uninterrupted subscription payments qualify you for receiving a perpetual fallback license.
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-perpetual-fallback-license-
Also worth noting that unlike every other subscription service they reward loyalty with large discounts on renewing annually.
IDEs need to be constantly updated to keep up with language / framework changes. Your subscription pays for that continued work.
If you really want, you can buy the 1 year and cancel after it’s up - you get a perpetual license for the version you’re on at the time it expires, but I really don’t get why that would be a good thing.
you get a perpetual license for the version you’re on at the time it expires,
No, for the version at the time you bought it. Which makes sense, it’s kinda like buying that version back then.
Sure, but visual studio offers a standalone purchase option and Jetbrains should too.
