I found IntelliJ IDEA about 7 years ago. Before that, I had used a number of different editors/IDE's for polyglot development. I honestly really started to enj

I found IntelliJ IDEA about 7 years ago. Before that, I had used a number of different editors/IDE's for polyglot development. I honestly really started to enjoy developing again. Intellij let's me focus on the problems I'm trying to solve. It does a ton to help remove the boilerplate of programming. The things that I really use it most for: - 1. quick fixes. Automatically adds imports and cleans up code with a key command - 2. reformatting. I just reflexively reformat everything as I go - 3. show parameters. Cmd P shows me what I need to call functions - 4. find usages. Jumping through code is so fast and easy - 5. syntax highlighting. So many options. But the ones I use most are showing issues as I type, and clicking on a variable and it highlights its usages There are probably more that I'm forgetting I use. But I also bought the pro license for myself and happily renew every year. A lot of the features and upgrades I don't even use - they are for languages that other people use. But I am happy to support the product and get features that I do use.