I Still Prefer Eclipse Over IntelliJ IDEA - Bozho's tech blog
Over the years I've observed an inevitable shift from Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA. Last year they were almost equal in usage, and I have the feeling things are swaying even more towards IDEA.
IDEA is like the iPhone of IDEs – its users tell you that "you will feel how much better it is once you get used to it", "are you STILL using Eclipse??", "IDEA is so much better, I thought everyone has switched", etc.
I've been using mostly Eclipse for the past 12 years, but in some cases I did use IDEA – when I was writing Scala, when I was writing Android, and most recently – when Eclipse failed to be ready for the Java 9 release, so after half a day of trying to get it working, I just switched to IDEA until Eclipse finally gets a working Java 9 version (with Maven and the rest of the stuff).
But I will get back to Eclipse again, soon. And I still prefer it. Not just because of all the key combinations I've internalized (you can reuse those in IDEA), but because there are still things I find worse in IDEA. Of course, IDEA has so much more cool features like code improvement suggestions and actually working plugins for everything. But at least some of the problems I see have to do with the more basic development workflow and experience. And you can't compensate for those with sugarcoating. So here they are:
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