Ask HN: Do you like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA better?

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by mantazer • 12 years ago

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What do/don't you like about either?

rnovak• 12 years ago

IntelliJ IDEA is a great IDE, unfortunately it's commercial, so a lot of places, including my work place, wont pay for a license for their developers (despite obvious productivity benefits). And unfortunately without admin rights to my workstation, I can't install it and use my own license either.

So far, the use of IDEA in my own personal development has been blissful. Their groovy and Java editors are much more 'aware' than their Eclipse counterparts. And I've yet to get a NPE from the IDE itself, which is something I get all the time from Eclipse.

In eclipse, I literally have about 80 workspaces for the same project because every other day or so, Eclipse finds a new and interesting way to corrupt my workspace. I've had errors thrown merely trying to _save_ a file, and let us not forget that in several instances, Eclipse could not find java.lang.Object (seems like a kinda major issue, but who am I to say that).

What I will give Eclipse credit for is that for any minor accomplishment, for any small coding challenge, even for the simplest of classes, it really makes me feel like I've earned it.

mantazer• 12 years ago

Well said. If I got a dollar for every time I had to clean and rebuild a project in Eclipse, I'd have enough money to purchase a commercial license for IDEA.

Ask HN: Do you like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA better?

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