Well, all I can say is that this does not map onto my experience at all. Indeed I was about to mention the debugger as one of the main feature advantages :) The

Well, all I can say is that this does not map onto my experience at all. Indeed I was about to mention the debugger as one of the main feature advantages :) The claim that you need 800 lines to make a rest api is simply not true, unless you are talking about java6, raw servlet development, which noone does nowadays. With Spring, it's 4 lines counted (of course, not counting Spring itself and less than 10 lines of global configuration). Intellij covers a good 80% of the keybindings I need out of the box, and I customized a 10% on top of it. I need to reach the mouse for operation that I might need to do once a day or less. Otherwise, everything related to coding, refactoring, testing, coverage, configuration checks, running and debugging is completely covered. And I have not been touching xml or raw jdbc templates for literally years. I'm sorry you had a less than optimal experience, to develop experience in a platform sometimes is less about using it and more about dodging bullets :)