One IBM i IDE to Rule them All
IBM has released a seemingly innocuous update to IBM Rational Developer for IBM i. The new version, V9.8, is built over the latest version of eclipse and looks and feels the same as the previous (v9.6) version of RDi but is slightly faster.
Sadly, it’s also HUGELY expensive!!!
So… sadly… it’s time to say goodbye to RDi and start the hunt for a replacement…
The obvious contender seems to be Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s free code editor. How will it stack up against the super-expensive IBM code editor that costs nearly two thousand dollars a year?
There is one clear winner, and it might not be the one you expect!
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