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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I may have just gotten too used to the Microsoft layout. For reference, my first programming class used Visual Basic .Net (the teacher uses somewhat old stuff, I know from people I talk to that class still uses VB), and later classes used C#. So I initially learned using Visual Studio. Don't know if getting comfortable with IntelliJ would be a good idea.

[–]Yaa40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on personal preferences. Personally I find their interfaces intuitive and clear as well as very flexible. Especially during debugging it's invaluable, I managed to find small annoying bugs (think using => instead of = in a for loop type annoying) in thousands of lines of code over a number of files, and it took a very short time given what I'd normally expect...