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I see lots of shiny new free editors, but IDEs, especially with deep semantic models and refactorings, are a rare breed.
by blattimwind 7y ago
I see lots of shiny new free editors, but IDEs, especially with deep semantic models and refactorings, are a rare breed.
- Scarbutt 7y agoOutside of Java, jetbrains doesn't have much or anything to offer against vscode, hence the GP's comment. Jetbrains is even lagging behind, look at vscode remote capabilities which is way ahead jetbrains remote features.
- pjmlp 7y agoEclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio, QtCreator look quite nice to me. Best of all, I can use Java in any Java IDE.
- dajohnson89 7y agohaving used the first three extensively , i’d say intellij is miles beyond them.
- pjmlp 7y agoIndeed it wins hands down making my laptop sound like an aeroplane getting ready for takeoff with its continuous indexing, while making generous use of the existing memory. Needs additional configuration for what the others do out of the box, like Javadoc tooltips. Requires ten finger shortcuts. It is also the only Java IDE unable to do mixed language debugging, Java/C/C++.