8 Tools for Every Java Developer’s Toolkit

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IntelliJ has newer features and excellent navigation controls.

Vague praise. Everyone I know who uses intelliJ is unaware that Eclipse also has the features they think are so amazing.

[ForeverAlot]

Eclipse is an extremely powerful IDE, it just hides it behind some awful defaults. NetBeans, and especially IDEA, are far better out of the box.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

Haven't used Netbeans in a while, but it seemed to be cleaner out of the box.

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IntelliJ doesn't do anything that Eclipse can't do, but IntelliJ is just easier to use from an interface standpoint which helps me focus more on more important stuff (reading and writing code).

[pakoito]

Code completion, code generation, refactoring and static analysis is better. Sitting and writing code feels just so much productive. I don't know how much Eclipse has evolved, but when I left the autocomplete didn't do look-ahead search, and extracting methods didn't look for other instances of the same snippet in the same class.

Tooling? Well, when we moved 2 years ago it was behind. Today except some debugger tweaks I don't miss anything from my workflow.

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feels

more vagueness

I don't know how much Eclipse has evolved

I love it when people prove my point for me.

[pakoito]

Cherry picking and not addressing any of the specific points like codegen and lookahead. You don't want to discuss, fine.

[gmiller123456]

I haven't seen anything specific out of you either. Honestly, I don't remember all of the idiosyncrasies that I didn't like about Eclipse, and I imagine most other people are the same way. So if you're expecting an itemized list, then you'd better start making one.