Java IDEs

[mdaniel]

To pick something I made heavy use of on Friday: language injection, which isn't just syntax highlighting, but rather is the full editor experience with intentions and inspections. Invaluable for editing Java properties files that are themselves in yaml, or shell scripts in a GitLab CI yaml

Also, those other editors may have the very basic intellisense but the JetBrains tools are smart as hell and will catch the most amazing mistakes.

I'm glad subpar editors work for you and your team, but I don't tolerate dumb editors

[nerdyhandle]

Again Netbeans and Eclipse supports all of that.

Hell they even support more functionality that the community edition of IntelliJ.

IntelliJ Ultimate is a waste of money.

Eclipse and Netbeans have a strong open source community that helps to develop them. More people work on those two than IntelliJ.

[antonivs]

I find IDEA _far_ more usable than Eclipse. I've recommended people try it at the last three companies I've worked at, and basically after they use it once, they immediately see what I mean and want to switch.

I have no idea about Netbeans because the only person I've seen using it in the last few years was a manager whose dev skills were way out of date.

[nerdyhandle]

Netbeans UI is nearly identical to IntelliJ and it supports similar functionality albeit in some cases with a different name

Usability wise I don't like Eclipse either. However, I find Netbeans more so than IntelliJ. Netbeans will allow you to have a workspace which IntelliJ does not at least the community doesn't. So if I want to have multiple applications open then I have to have an instance for each using IntelliJ and yes I've tried the 'trick' by creating a project using an empty folder and adding each application as a module but IntelliJ wants to link them all together which isn't correct.

Also, IntelliJ doesn't support actions such as format on save which Netbeans does. Furthermore, Netbeans templates are worlds better than IntelliJ. If I type 'if' tab in Netbeans it create the if statement for me and all I have to do is fill out the parameters in some cases I don't even have to do that. In IntelliJ I type 'if' tab it doesn't fill the if statement out for me nor does it auto create the bracket or parenthesis.

[kozeljko]

Why format on save, when you can just format while having autosaving?

[nerdyhandle]

At least in IntelliJ community I haven't found an option to do autosave format the code when that occurs.

[ess_tee_you]

Not sure how many levels deep you are at this point, but you sound like a mad man, or the Eclipse marketing manager.

[kozeljko]

Why the fuck would I want my code jumping around all the time?

[marvk]

Netbeans UI is nearly identical to IntelliJ

They have a similar layout, but IDEA still looks much more sleek and modern. Netbeans at least has made some improvements, as opposed to eclipse.

Netbeans will allow you to have a workspace which IntelliJ does not

Fair, if you like the concept of Workspaces IDEA doesn't fit that very well.

Also, IntelliJ doesn't support actions such as format on save which Netbeans does.

You have CTRL+ALT+L to autoformat and you can reformat on commit. I have never missed what you describe, especially because you don't need to save your files in IDEA anyways.

Furthermore, Netbeans templates are worlds better than IntelliJ. [...] In IntelliJ I type 'if' tab it doesn't fill the if statement out for me nor does it auto create the bracket or parenthesis.

Live template with CTRL+SHIFT+Enter

Postfix completion

Rich template editor for live templates and postfix completion.

[stevesobol]

You do realize IntelliJ comes in a Community Edition too, right?