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		ssalazar 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software engineers can no longer neglect their sof... Many people who get into software development before 2010 or so have easily spent hundreds of dollars on dev tools of a similar nature.

markerz 9 days ago [–]

Surely, they don't spend $500 per month, though, as the quote implies.

daemin 9 days ago | [–]

Visual Studio Professional did cost about $500 back in the day, although you ended up getting a perpetual licence for the software and some updates. These days they expect you to have a subscription as with all other business software.

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