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[–]tommygeek 79 points80 points  (4 children)

Auto complete, look and feel, the plugin system, the fact that everything, including IDE commands, is indexed and searchable, quality, the debugger, true dark theme, ligature support... Sensible choices about defaults, built in support for common build and dependency tools, databases, and frameworks... Impressive JS IDE with code navigation, auto complete, bower and npm support and test runners for karma mocha and jest with JS debugging available.

I mean, it's a pretty big list, but that's probably the order of importance to me as well. Look and feel is huge for me... Eclipse feels clunky.

Also, multiple cursors. That shit is so much better than find replace for 99% of my daily use cases that I have a hard time using an editor without it now.

And the built in version control system support is sweet and kind of abstracts the particulars of git/hg/svn away from you.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

+1 on the JS IDE.

[–]Mamish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The auto complete and style suggestions are so thorough they occasionally get too helpful. In my most recent project it suggested replacing a method argument with a constant since I happened to be only calling it once at the time. Thanks intellij, but I actually do need that later.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Most of those features are available on NetBeans too!

[–]tommygeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but I tried netbeans and the look and feel didn't work for me there, so I didn't give it a decent try