Tim Holloway wrote:IntelliJ is just about the last IDE out there that still costs money.
When you consider that its free competitors include products like Eclipse and NetBeans, you'd have to figure that simply to remain in business all this time that there are either a lot of stupid people out there or that it has something of value in it.
Well, there are definitely a lot of stupid people, but IntelliJ nevertheless does offer value, and one of the areas that it's best at is UI applications support.
As for myself, I rarely have the patience to watch a bunch of videos trying to sell me things. I'm not into video for video's sake, I don't have the bandwidth to, um "enjoy" it, and far too often, the system I'm sitting at can't handle the video format in use.
$250 for an individual license is a price where I might want some proof of value, but if it can automate some manual process, hey, I am all for buying it. But if I have to go through a big learning curve, maybe the learning curve costs more than the value of the features being automated.
So for me, the biggest cost is the learning curve, not the $250 price. If I could find something that can reduce the learning curve, maybe I would be a customer.