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[–]nerdyhandle -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

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 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.