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Why not just use IDEA ultimate and install different plugins per language?

• toyg 11y ago
  I tried, it's not the same. The dedicated tools are better.
  • joesmo 11y ago
    Also, it doesn't support all the plugins for each language, only some languages.
  • noarchy 11y ago
    Not to mention, I see less incentive now for Jetbrains to make the IntelliJ plugins on par with the standalone, language-specific IDEs.
• estefan 11y ago
  @toyg (not sure why I can't reply to you so I'll reply to me instead) - really? I've never tried them. I thought Intellij was the same with the appropriate language plugin. Maybe I'll give some of them a go...
  • fenomas 11y ago
    (aside: HN blocks replying to your replyer for a short while to discourage heated exchanges. If you wait a bit the reply button will show up.)
• hinkley 11y ago
  I dunno what it's like now, but there was a time when, among other things, IntelliJ could not open a project created in rubymine. They were providing ruby support as a plugin and it was considerably broken, for about six months.