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NGL I'd use jetbrainz products more if they weren't that pricey and more portable
Most of their IDEs you can use for free for non-commercial purposes and even if you need to buy them; when you compare software development to any other profession our tools are incredibly cheap. You can get all the Jetbrains IDEs for less than 300€. Compare that to a HDL simulator or a 3D CAD application like Autodesk. These easily cost several thousand euros each year.
Autodesk was only an illustrative example, Solidworks and Onshape have similar price tags. Professional software outside of software development is highly specialized and very expensive. There wont be any open source equivalents for most of them for a very long time if ever. "You shouldn't use proprietary software", is easy to say when alternatives exists; but currently we don't even have an FOSS alternative to Photoshop that creative workers are willing to use.