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My impression is quite different: IntelliJ has comparable set of features, but the difference is that in IntelliJ those features actually work without annoying
by mamon 11y ago
My impression is quite different: IntelliJ has comparable set of features, but the difference is that in IntelliJ those features actually work without annoying user. this started with a simple but brilliant idea JetBrains developers had: "disk space is dirt cheap, let's use 1-2 GB of it to store index, so that autocompletion could work lightining fast". Also, because it was initially developed by single company and single team of developers IDEA code (both core and plugins) is much more consistent in terms of quality than Eclipse's counterparts.
- tmd83 11y agoI am a long time happy user of IDEA but they seem to be always screwing up index these days. There has been version when the responsiveness of autocomplete has plummet. It has gone faster in places and slower in others. I think in general the worst case performance (people remember the annoyances more) has often regressed between releases too much. It seems every software out there is getting more features but the produces are getting sloppy and bug prone.
- alanfranzoni 11y agoI agree completely. While Eclipse had a lot of plugins, it was often difficult to make them work together; so I was stuck with multiple Eclipse or eclipse customizations with a different set of plugins for each one. IDEA has probably less features, and third party plugins don't necessarily work well together; but you can see the idea of the "ide as a whole" behind Jetbrains products.