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He closed the tab and took a breath. He went back to the official JetBrains site and actually looked at the "Special Offers" page. He realized: As a student, he could get it For his open-source project, he qualified for a free license Community Edition

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, a single product that combines the previous Community and Professional editions into one installation. While core features like Jupyter Notebook support