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I used NetBeans for Java development, and I find quite good. But still, I continue to look for better opportunities, and I stumbled upon “free” version of IntelliJ IDEA.
So, my question:
Is that IntelliJ “Community Edition” more powerfull than NetBeans, and if yes, how? Is it worth spending time to learn it?
Just go ahead and use IntelliJ for a week. If you love it, you love it.
In the beginning, one of the point people often raised about IntelliJ is that you don’t have to learn it. It just helps you when and where you need it. It’s almost as if the designers of the IDE are also programmers and they know what we really want.
Most of these helps are preverved today (and copied by Eclipse and Netbeans). So I don’t think your experiment with IntelliJ will be wasting a lot of your time, even if in the end you decide against it.
And it’s going to be an absolute shame if IBM and Oracle crushed IntelliJ. They are the cooperations that patent things like how to draw a line on screen, yet they have no conscience whatsoever when it comes to blatantly
copysteal legitimate innovations from a small company in Russia. It’s not like IntellJ can launch a legal battle against these two giants, that’s suicidal.So as a programmer myself, I appeal to all programmers to ditch Eclipse and Netbeans.