Comment by _ph_

Well, it starts at €480 (Linux) - €720 for the Mac for a pure IDE, without the ability to produce executables. You are limited to run your programs inside the development environment, this limits its applicability a lot. You can't write a simple command line utility this way, just to name one example. You cannot give it to a friend etc. The HobbyistDV edition is in my eyes the first really usable one. It is already over €1400, and that is for a single OS, a single CPU architecture. Especially as a hobbyist I might be able to play around with it a bit. I would be interested if there is any customer who has more than one hobbyistDV license. And that doesn't seem to include any updates.