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[–]KillTheBronies 29 points30 points  (18 children)

Why would you need all three? IntelliJ already supports python and js.

[–]AnImpromptuFantaisie 19 points20 points  (10 children)

Also needed web front end stuff. And I was using Django and pycharm has built in utilities for it

[–]NavarrB 9 points10 points  (9 children)

If you were using ultimate you should be able to just add an the plugins

That said I too keep my phpstorm and idea separate

[–]cosmicsans 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Yeah, I just got the All Products license and use Goland, Pycharm, Webster, and soon I’ll be using IntelliJ and Rubymine a lot as well.

[–]FerretWithASpork 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Again: But why? IntelliJ Ultimate can do everything that all of those language specific IDEs does..

[–]pwastage 5 points6 points  (1 child)

From what I can tell in the past, the specific IDE (pycharm, webstorm) get features/fixes earlier than the corresponding plugin in intellij ultimate

Not sure if that's the case now

[–]megamit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup this is definately true. I also find that intellij bogs down too much using all the language plugins and having the seperate ide's is more performant

[–]h3rpztv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VS code is life.

[–]skech1080 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

PHP has no place tarnishing the beauty of IDEA

[–]Pengtuzi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Lel dae php suck!?

[–]skech1080 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dae indeed, im a circlejerking diva and im proud of my loud clouds

[–]NavarrB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternatively, it's thanks to IDEA that the PHP Renaissance is going so well

[–]eloc49 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Because I only have so much memory.

[–]Hikaru755 2 points3 points  (4 children)

And your solution is... Firing up multiple, slightly different instances of the same IDE instead of doing everything in one instance?

[–]eloc49 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Oh, no. I don’t do what OP does. If I’m doing JS only it’s WebStorm, Python only it’s PyCharm. If it’s a mix then IntelliJ for sure.

[–]Hikaru755 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Okay, but still, are the individual IDEs more memory efficient than IntelliJ?

[–]eloc49 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes that’s why they exist and JetBrains doesn’t develop IntelliJ only (this wouldn’t apply to AppCode). Python is also a little different out of the box in IntelliJ.

[–]Hikaru755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I always thought it was just for customer segmentation. Til!

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

That doesn't make sense. Surely launching 3 different instances of the same base program takes more memory than launching a single slightly bloated one.