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Confessions of an IntelliJ addict
My name is Anton, and I’m an IntelliJ IDEA addict.
Whew, it feels good to say it out loud. The choice of IDE
for developers is one of the most contentious debates in
the software game. Unless you have a darn good reason,
you don’t often use more than one IDE, let alone all three
of the major IDEs in the Java world: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
and NetBeans.
The truth is that I have been a happy IntelliJ IDEA (for the sake of brevity and
laziness, you’ll see IntelliJ IDEA referred to in full, as well as simply “IntelliJ”
and “IDEA” as well from here on) user since 2004—a full decade. Over the
last 10 years, I have always been discovering the new aspects of the IDE
and I’m always waiting for the new version release with an excitement.
But why? After all, aren’t all IDEs more or less the same? (BOOO! HISSSSS!)
Was there something that happened in my past to make me so dedicated to
this particular IDE?
Well, before settling on IDEA, I had worked with Eclipse and NetBeans, even
championing Eclipse at one point in my former job. But by using IDEA and
Eclipse almost side by side for some time I realized that IDEA supports the
work I was doing much better. Eventually, I dodged other IDEs and decided
to become a full-time IDEA user. When I joined ZeroTurnaround, my new
role required me to learn all IDEs in-depth due to the fact that our agship
product, JRebel, ships as an IDE plugin for Eclipse, NetBeans, IDEA, and
JDeveloper. My primary IDE is IntelliJ IDEA and my teammates think of me as
of an IntelliJ IDEA addict.
Now it might be only my impression, but back then IDEA had the best
refactoring capabilities. These days, I think it still is more consistent in terms
of UX, and there are shortcuts for almost every action. Not to mention it
understands the source code context better than others. Subjectively, it
made me more productive, but this kind of depends on the set of features
that you, as a developer, need and want. If the IDE matches what you
actually use then it is probably the best IDE for you :)
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陌上人如玉tt2016-05-26感谢分享，很有用
