Eclipse is Good, IntelliJ is Better!

Posted on September 1, 2007
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I have not done any serious Java programming for the last year as I’ve been busy with other stuff.  Today I installed IntelliJIDEA Version 7.0 Miletone II.  After 15 minutes of re-adjustment and getting use to the oh so heavy Java stack again (Spring, Hibernate, Web Frameworks, yada, yada, yada…), it was as if I was home again.  You know that feeling, where things just click!  I have never had that level of comfort with Eclipse.  I doubt I ever will.  Boy how I’ve tried, and been nagged at by various developers.  But nope, Eclipse and I are not meant to be… 

 

Anyway, I’ve got 60 days left to do some damage…rock on IntelliJ.

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2 Responses to “Eclipse is Good, IntelliJ is Better!”

  1. Rob Christie on September 2nd, 2007 8:17 pm

    Have you taken a look at the latest builds of netbeans. Some of the stuff in there looks cool, particularly the ROR support.
    Just wondered what your view on it was.
    Also, does Intellij have anything like Mylyn in Eclipse which is so cool, especially when working on a large code base.

  2. cleve on September 2nd, 2007 9:04 pm

    Hi Rob, good to hear from you. On the NetBeans front I played with at the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference and it looked pretty decent with the beginnings of refactoring there as well.

    I do like the eclipse and Mylyn is a good addition, but eclipse is eclipse. It’s never been as fast as IntelliJ IMO particularly around the refactoring and it poor support for hierarchical projects is just plain annoying. Why it has to treat all projects as peers I just don’t know. It really just comes down to the small things I suppose.

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