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> unlike Intellij, which sells its IDE The fancy version costs money, yes, but the community edition is free and Apache licensed. Here's the source code: https

> unlike Intellij, which sells its IDE The fancy version costs money, yes, but the community edition is free and Apache licensed. Here's the source code: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community > is there another major cause for most of the world drifting to the inferior choice? I've used both Eclipse and IntelliJ, as well as JetBrain's "ReSharper" tool in Visual Studio, and while the UI is obviously different, and in some ways better, some ways worse than Eclipse, the actual functionality and feature set of IntelliJ is clearly superior to Eclipse, especially all the refactoring and code smell tools. The feature list is just incredible and constantly increasing: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/ Also, IdeaVim is way superior to Eclim, if you care about Vim keybindings and modal editing.

richdougherty 9y ago
I didn't know the free version was Apache licensed. That's great!
ryukafalz 9y ago
Unfortunately, Google's fork (Android Studio) is not open source. Previous versions of Android Studio (based on Eclipse) were. Clearest example I've seen in a long time of why copyleft licenses are important. EDIT: I was wrong about this, see below thread.
- noarchy 9y ago
  You can find instructions on both getting the source code, and building from source here: http://tools.android.com/build http://tools.android.com/build
  - ryukafalz 9y ago
    Ah! I stand corrected. I wasn't able to find a link to that info anywhere from the download page (https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html). I was also confused before when browsing through Google's Android repos because they don't seem to do any development on the master branch: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/master https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/maste... ...instead developing on project or release-specific branches: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studio-master-dev https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studi... I have to say, I'm glad to have been wrong!
nambit 9y ago
How is IdeaVim superior to Eclim? I can use my vim plugins with Eclim?

richdougherty 9y ago

I didn't know the free version was Apache licensed. That's great!

ryukafalz 9y ago

Unfortunately, Google's fork (Android Studio) is not open source. Previous versions of Android Studio (based on Eclipse) were. Clearest example I've seen in a long time of why copyleft licenses are important. EDIT: I was wrong about this, see below thread.

noarchy 9y ago
You can find instructions on both getting the source code, and building from source here: http://tools.android.com/build http://tools.android.com/build
- ryukafalz 9y ago
  Ah! I stand corrected. I wasn't able to find a link to that info anywhere from the download page (https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html). I was also confused before when browsing through Google's Android repos because they don't seem to do any development on the master branch: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/master https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/maste... ...instead developing on project or release-specific branches: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studio-master-dev https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studi... I have to say, I'm glad to have been wrong!

nambit 9y ago

How is IdeaVim superior to Eclim? I can use my vim plugins with Eclim?