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I don't recoment Kotling becuase despite being Open Source it requires a proprietary closed source IDE to use it, they have plugin for Eclipse but it will be al

I don't recoment Kotling becuase despite being Open Source it requires a proprietary closed source IDE to use it, they have plugin for Eclipse but it will be always a second class citizen and the free version (IDEA) cannot comapre to Eclipse. To me is just a trojan horse that is heavily marketed by Jetbrains, even for Android apps I'd recoment Dart with Flutter over it.

vbezhenar 8y ago
Idea Community Edition is free and open source. It supports Kotlin with the same plugin. Whether it's comparable to Eclipse is debatable. I like Idea much more.
- adrianlmm 8y ago
  Objectively, Eclipse is milles ahead and more complete than IDEA, it is a toy compared to Eclipse
  - eklavya 8y ago
    Having used both I can't imagine what you are talking about. Which features in Eclipse is Idea missing?
    - adrianlmm 8y ago
      First of all, I'm talking about the free version of IntelliJ (IDEA), you cannot use it to create Java EE applications and the HTML and JavaScript editors are pretty basic as everything else.
    - pjmlp 8y ago
      - Incremental compilation on save - Not spinning the hard disk all the time indexing libraries - Showing Javadoc by default without extra configuration steps
pirocks 8y ago
AFAIK intellij/idea is open source: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
- adrianlmm 8y ago
  >and the free version (IDEA) cannot comapre to Eclipse. I already adressed it in my original comment, is not good enougth.