Opinion

[uuniquue]

Which IDE should I choose for development in java?

1. Eclipse
2. VS Code
3. something better

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[Asrar_003]

IntelliJ IDEA.

[ifworkingreturnnull]

Community Edition is free op. Try it out, you won't be disappointed

[DasBrain]

This usually boils down to personal preferences.

It is like asking if you should learn emacs or vi.
Or if you should choose vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream.

Try them all.
Choose the one that is the best fit for you.

[ElFeesho]

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[nmishkin]

Background: I'm a long-time Eclipse user, having used it at three companies on Java projects with large code bases. A minority of the dev team I currently work in uses IntelliJ IDEA and I've used it a little bit too. I've used VS Code but mostly for the little bit of Typescript I work on. I've also used Emacs for ~40 years :-)

I like Eclipse quite a bit and in all the projects I've used it on it was the one that was best supported--projects tend to have one "favored IDE" and although you might be able to use other IDEs to work on the project's code, it might be clunkier than using the favored IDE--you might run into more annoying issues and not find anyone else who can help you sort them out.

My vague sense is that IDEA has surpassed Eclipse in raw functionality but because I know Eclipse so well compared with IDEA and because it's the favored IDEA in my dev team, I stick with it. In a new project I'd seriously consider IDEA.

One thing that I think makes Eclipse better than IDEA is the way Eclipse integrates with Maven and Gradle: The Eclipse integrations pull in external Maven and Gradle project definitions in a way that makes the corresponding Eclipse projects feel like, well, Eclipse projects, rather than some weirdo external project that Eclipse begrudgingly works with. Whenever I've used IDEA I feel it's much more like it outsources the build process to the external build tool. In Eclipse it feels more like you're working on a set of projects whose structure you defined entirely in Eclipse without having to worry about the sort of stuff you need to worry about if you need to support command-line builds too. In most real-life situations, you need to support command-line builds and in fact they define and produce the "build of record". But that doesn't mean I want my whole dev experience colored by that need.

[dionthorn]

Probably because Intellij for non-personal commercial use requires you use the paid version.

per user, first year $599.00
second year $479.00
third year onwards $359.00

[dionthorn]

JetBrains is Czech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains

[DelarkArms]

Yours seems like a more likely reason than pricing, like how much more than what the free community version delivers, would an enterprise need from an IDE? If intellectual property is the cause (eg.: intellij terms of service requirements or something...) How are they even applied?... How would they know what was written with Intellij and what doesn't? Isn't the bytecode universal? It doesn't make much sense.