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JetBrains is deadly. IntelliJ IDEA is simply the best tool I've ever used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Incredibly intuitive and it does it al

JetBrains is deadly. IntelliJ IDEA is simply the best tool I've ever used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Incredibly intuitive and it does it all. It's what Photoshop is for designers. This immediately gets me stoked for doing my Unity C# development with this. * Edit. Initially thought this was an entirely new IDE, and not just a plugin. Less excited, but certainly worth a look.

codeulike 11y ago
Sounds like its a branch of the IntelliJ IDEA codebase
- winterbe 11y ago
  I guess it's just based on the Intellij Platform which is open source and also serves as the base for other Jetbrains IDEs like Webstorm or Pycharm: - http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/platform https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...
Jack5500 11y ago
It is a completly new IDE, it's just based on the same technology they use for their other IDEs
gorohoroh 11y ago
This is not a plugin but a standalone product. Essentially this is standalone IntelliJ shell that communicates with a ReSharper process.
- danielcarvalho 11y ago
  Oh, my mistake. Excitement levels elevated. Good news everyone!
gelasio 11y ago
I've tried all of JetBrains tools over and over throughout the years since I keep hearing about how much some people like their stuff - but every single time I am disappointed at how over-engineered everything they do seems to be. Furthermore, their cross platform tools like IntelliJ IDEA always wreak of badly emulated native components that don't look or behave the way that they should on any OS. So for me - Visual Studio 2015 is the best tool I've ever used for HTML/CSS/JS (and Node.js and C#). It simply outshines everything else I've tried. I guess if I was forced to use an OS X or Linux desktop, I'd resign myself to using JetBrains tools because they probably are the best thing you can find outside of Windows...but as someone who prefers Windows and who wants native Windows apps that behave idiomatically instead of just fulfilling the lowest common denominator - VS can't be beat IMO.
- firephreek 11y ago
  What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way. There isn't any thing (non platform specific) that I can do in VS that I can't do better and faster in the IDEA platform. And with the tooling consistency, in can jump between stacks and Stillman maintain the same functionality.
  - danielcarvalho 11y ago
    "What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way." I should have just copy & pasted your comment.
  - unusximmortalis 11y ago
    this is a very interesting debate is there a list of features side by side? or a comparative study that lists pros and cons? I do not think over-engineering is a subjective term, also common sense :) yes, between them there's lots of levels but one is at one extreme and one is at the other. so I guess, a good analysis of these two IDEs could be make with a good level of objectivity from the author.
- danielcarvalho 11y ago
  I've had literally the opposite experience. Everything I seemed to need, IntelliJ IDEA magically had. I just ended up uninstalling things like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code. Convenient. Usually it started out as, "I wonder if it can..." and then quickly find the feature that just does what I want. Even as a Windows user myself, I can't quite articulate what has always bothered me about Visual Studio in general over the years. It seems to have it's own language, terminology, and way of doing things that you have to buy into. And I really don't like that. Let me pick a folder, have that be my project, and edit text really clever like. That's what I want.
27182818284 11y ago
PHPStorm was the first IDE that not only made writing PHP significantly better for me, but also was the first IDE that I felt surpassed Visual Studio in many little ways. The C# dev aspect of this I'm more excited for colleagues that use OS X exclusively--they'll be able to collaborate much easier with a full IDE than the lesser methods they are using now.
jayd16 11y ago
Sadly Unity will not be supported initially.
jinst8gmi 11y ago
A plugin is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. One IDE, many languages :)

codeulike 11y ago

Sounds like its a branch of the IntelliJ IDEA codebase

winterbe 11y ago
I guess it's just based on the Intellij Platform which is open source and also serves as the base for other Jetbrains IDEs like Webstorm or Pycharm: - http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/platform https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

Jack5500 11y ago

It is a completly new IDE, it's just based on the same technology they use for their other IDEs

gorohoroh 11y ago

This is not a plugin but a standalone product. Essentially this is standalone IntelliJ shell that communicates with a ReSharper process.

danielcarvalho 11y ago
Oh, my mistake. Excitement levels elevated. Good news everyone!

gelasio 11y ago

I've tried all of JetBrains tools over and over throughout the years since I keep hearing about how much some people like their stuff - but every single time I am disappointed at how over-engineered everything they do seems to be. Furthermore, their cross platform tools like IntelliJ IDEA always wreak of badly emulated native components that don't look or behave the way that they should on any OS. So for me - Visual Studio 2015 is the best tool I've ever used for HTML/CSS/JS (and Node.js and C#). It simply outshines everything else I've tried. I guess if I was forced to use an OS X or Linux desktop, I'd resign myself to using JetBrains tools because they probably are the best thing you can find outside of Windows...but as someone who prefers Windows and who wants native Windows apps that behave idiomatically instead of just fulfilling the lowest common denominator - VS can't be beat IMO.

firephreek 11y ago
What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way. There isn't any thing (non platform specific) that I can do in VS that I can't do better and faster in the IDEA platform. And with the tooling consistency, in can jump between stacks and Stillman maintain the same functionality.
- danielcarvalho 11y ago
  "What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way." I should have just copy & pasted your comment.
- unusximmortalis 11y ago
  this is a very interesting debate is there a list of features side by side? or a comparative study that lists pros and cons? I do not think over-engineering is a subjective term, also common sense :) yes, between them there's lots of levels but one is at one extreme and one is at the other. so I guess, a good analysis of these two IDEs could be make with a good level of objectivity from the author.
danielcarvalho 11y ago
I've had literally the opposite experience. Everything I seemed to need, IntelliJ IDEA magically had. I just ended up uninstalling things like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code. Convenient. Usually it started out as, "I wonder if it can..." and then quickly find the feature that just does what I want. Even as a Windows user myself, I can't quite articulate what has always bothered me about Visual Studio in general over the years. It seems to have it's own language, terminology, and way of doing things that you have to buy into. And I really don't like that. Let me pick a folder, have that be my project, and edit text really clever like. That's what I want.

27182818284 11y ago

PHPStorm was the first IDE that not only made writing PHP significantly better for me, but also was the first IDE that I felt surpassed Visual Studio in many little ways. The C# dev aspect of this I'm more excited for colleagues that use OS X exclusively--they'll be able to collaborate much easier with a full IDE than the lesser methods they are using now.

jayd16 11y ago

Sadly Unity will not be supported initially.

jinst8gmi 11y ago

A plugin is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. One IDE, many languages :)