I’ve been using IntelliJ since version 2. It is the best tool I’ve ever used. It’s grown with me throughout my career, and supported almost every language and change that I’ve needed. I had to resort to using Xcode because I was doing iOS development. I tried AppCode, but my iOS days ended soon anyway. I am completely content and happy paying Jetbrains for the software. It’s high-quality, it’s awesome. I remember people trying to get me to use Eclipse back in the day, that’s a piece of garbage slung together.
I think IntelliJ is great, but there is no doubt that it's a massive resource hog. I work on a legacy project that is probably doing many things wrong, and IntelliJ is sometimes using so much memory on it that the OOM killer just kills my IDE.
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The time I save using jetbrains today is well worth the "risk" of having to learn a new tool sometime in the next 20 years.
I’ve been using IntelliJ since version 2. It is the best tool I’ve ever used. It’s grown with me throughout my career, and supported almost every language and change that I’ve needed. I had to resort to using Xcode because I was doing iOS development. I tried AppCode, but my iOS days ended soon anyway. I am completely content and happy paying Jetbrains for the software. It’s high-quality, it’s awesome. I remember people trying to get me to use Eclipse back in the day, that’s a piece of garbage slung together.
I think IntelliJ is great, but there is no doubt that it's a massive resource hog. I work on a legacy project that is probably doing many things wrong, and IntelliJ is sometimes using so much memory on it that the OOM killer just kills my IDE.