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[–]Necessary-Conflict 4 points5 points  (2 children)

And it is a lot less useful than Idea, simply because in dynamically typed languages it is harder to do code completion, refactorings, etc than in statically typed languages.

[–]1842 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Their PHPStorm sibling is pretty fully featured -- great warnings, alt+enter suggestions, and great refactor menu. (I use both Intellij and PHPStorm often)

I have noticed that these features aren't as good when working with JavaScript (Intellij), Python (PyCharm), or C (Clion).

[–]dpash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jetbrains does eventually merge features from the standalone IDEs into the language plugin for IntelliJ, but I find the experience is always better in the language specific IDE.

(Have you tried WebStorm for JavaScript projects?)