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Java was thriving during the golden age of Eclipse Foundation and IDE. JetBrains is very much recent.

• stevoski 1y ago
  > JetBrains is very much recent. JetBrains is 25 years old, almost as old as Java.
  • szatkus 1y ago
    IntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that.
    • jen20 1y ago
      It was in heavy use in London investment banks in 2005. Even resharper was commonplace by the following year.
  • TheFreim 1y ago
    Around 10 years ago Eclipse was still the primary editor in the circles I was in.
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      Still is on my circles, and at home I have been always a Netbeans fan. I am an IDE guy since Borland products for MS-DOS, yet I was never sold on InteliJ anyway, and Android Studio made me dislike it even further.
  • karmakaze 1y ago
    I was using Eclipse back then, but indeed Wikipedia says IDEA 1.0 (Jan 2001) predates Eclipse IDE (Nov 2001). NetBeans was bought by Sun in 1999 and opensourced on Jun 2000.