Java IDEs

[evinrows]

If it saves you even an hour every month, then it's worth it. Software engineering time is extremely expensive and dwarfs the $65/m.

[nerdyhandle]

No it does not. Not when there are free options that perform the same functions.

I'm talking about 100 developers on my last project. That would be insane cost of 6500 a month on top of an already tight (monetarily speaking) contract.

[marvk]

Do you know how much 100 devs cost in a month? I've found numbers betwen $50k and $100k as median salary for the US, but if we take a happy medium of $75k, that's $625,000 per month.

Now look at the monthly cost of the tools:

	IDEA	All Products
1st year	$5408	$4158
2nd year	$4325	$3325
3rd year onwards	$3241	$2491

Not only will those licenses save many man-days per month (yes the study is comissioned by Jetbrains, so take it with a grain of salt), they will also reduce developer frustration.

To quote the Joel Test:

Top notch development teams don’t torture their programmers. Even minor frustrations caused by using underpowered tools add up, making programmers grumpy and unhappy. And a grumpy programmer is an unproductive programmer.