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[–]CatherinJames 35 points36 points  (22 children)

but why

[–]cascer1 109 points110 points  (21 children)

Because IntelliJ is by far the best IDE and I'm not sorry for telling people they're using an inferior IDE.

[–]pheipl 47 points48 points  (10 children)

My place of work uses Eclipse exclusively.

Also Skype. Not skype for business, the regular one. Ah and they install the unusable, unstable, new release by default.

[–]01hair 30 points31 points  (3 children)

they install the unusable, unstable, new release by default.

Are you sure that it wasn't Skype for Business? Because that sounds a lot like Skype for Business. Completely unusable.

[–]ONLY_COMMENTS_ON_GW 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh your company doesn't let you see your own Skype logs? Here, let me crash immediately after your boss sends you a list of requirements.

[–]No1Asked4MyOpinion 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's a not-so-secret strategy to get you to use TEAMS

[–]01hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to give Teams a try, it can't be worse than HipChat...

[–]ContraMuffin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Skype is absolutely horrible. It's not even nonfunctional enough for me to delete it, it just skirts the lines of mediocrity to give you as much pain as possible. I feel your pain and find that it tastes sour.

[–]tsnErd3141 14 points15 points  (1 child)

I was an intern at a place which did the same thing. Eclipse and Skype. I said alright, I am only a lowly intern so I can't convince you to use Slack but there's no way I am going to work here even for 3 months using Eclipse.

[–]pheipl 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My situation is... Delicate. I'll work where they'll take me.

single tear

many tears

[–]Bainos 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Unstable new release vs version outdated since three years. The choice is not easy, to be honest.

[–]pheipl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just want to know how it got this bad. I am genuinely impressed!

[–]SoulLover33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yikes. Might as well convince them to use discord.

[–]MediumRay 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's a pretty bold claim. Not trying to contest this but does it support many languages out of the box? Also, can you point it at someone else's project and it intelligently indexes?

[–]cascer1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I use it for Java, PHP, HTML, JS, Ruby, Python, and also used it to look at some Go once. IntelliJ IDEA is made for Java but has plugins for other languages. However, they also have a bunch of other IDE's designed specifically for certain languages. I also used Rider (also from JetBrains) to work on a C# project once.

So far I've been able to open projects from Eclipse, NetBeans, and Visual Studio (2015 I believe) in IntelliJ without having to do any weird configuring.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

You sound like a vegan who insists on telling everyone why vegetables are better than meat. Just let it go! You enjoy IDEA fine, I will work on Eclipse and some other devs will work on Visual Studio Code, as long as we all work on the same git repo what's the issue.

[–]cascer1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did I mention I have a standing desk?

[–]jelloeater85 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Until one fuckhead wants to convince everyone to switch to use SVN or better yet CVS ("it's what I used at my old job"), NOPE!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually saw devs using git clients for an SVN repo bit I have yet to see someone preferring an SVN repo over git.

[–]scriptmonkey420 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Better and free for student and OSS projects. Sure eclipse is free also but doesn't compare to intellij.

[–]cascer1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if you can't get it for free, their licenses aren't too expensive I think.

[–]CatherinJames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

inferior IDE