Developers' Tool Spending Reluctance
The cluster centers on debates about developers being unwilling to pay for software tools and productivity aids, despite their high salaries making such purchases a bargain compared to the time saved.
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Hardware is cheap. Developers are not.
So you're saying programmers' time is not expensive enough?
Two dollars spent over and over would still take a while to equal a software engineer's salary, and if the end result is "produce a fully functional codebase in minutes" the premium might be worth it even if it exceeds that much.
To me this attitude is common among developers too. If there is a took that will save them 10 hours a week but costs 20 dollars they won't do it. Never met such an insanely cheap group of people.I am a developer BTW. I love paying for tools or hardware. I don't want to waste money but if something is going to make me faster or better I'm gonna do it.I once got laughed at by a bunch of my colleagues for paying 400 bucks for intellij. That's like 25 cents an hour for a ye
Software you like for the equivlaent of 0-2 hours of that dev's pay seems worth it.
I agree with you, but considering how much you spend on developers in salary, benefits, and equipment, $55 is for all intents and purposes free.
yes, and now computers are cheap and devs are expensive. The money has to flow somewhere.
Most developers will rather spent 2 days to build something than pay $60 for something better.
really, is $70 for a productivity tool you use for most of the day, every day, "pretty steep"? many developers make that in a hour. i paid for it.
Quality software and developers cost money.