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Off-topic: How would you compare Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA and why did you choose Eclipse?

• yawn 15y ago
  My current employer (and myself, too) had a history of Eclipse already when I started. Another dev got hired that was an IntelliJ nut. He was able to set up a working environment without "contaminating" our projects. Occasionally we would pair with him driving, and I was always impressed by the speed and quality of the IDE. Once he left I never bothered to look further.
• reverend_gonzo 15y ago
  I've used both. I have a personally bought copy of IntelliJ, though I'm using Eclipse now. For the most part, they're both comparable. Both have powerful refactoring and code-generation abilities. For core Java development, there's no need to leave Eclipse. IntelliJ might provide some nice features, but overall it doesn't warrant purchasing a license. When combined with web development, other languages, or non-core development, is where it easily pays off to switch to IntelliJ. We were doing some Grails work, and Eclipe's support (via STS) was shady at best. We put off trying IntelliJ since it meant learning a new environment, new shortcuts, etc, but after about a day of playing with it, we were sold, and never looked back.
  • gregschlom 15y ago
    For the record, there's a free version of IntelliJ now. (Community Edition)
  • eropple 15y ago
    IntelliJ is also a lot nicer for Scala than the Eclipse plugins. The Python plugin is pretty excellent too; it brings in most (all?) of what you'd buy PyCharm for.