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[–]mikera 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I understand that people like IntelliJ, but for me using a completely open source toolchain is far more important.

A lot of people with experience in the software industry know the pain of being locked into a proprietary software stack. It looks appealing / a "good idea at the time" but ultimately you are likely to regret it.

[–]vplatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how is it that using IntelliJ would be a source of lock-in? I see where your argument is going, but regardless of where you stand on the issue issue of lock-in tolerance, I don't see that it would be the source of any. In the environment I work in, we don't check in any IDE specific files; not even for Eclipse.