[ajug-members] Re: Your favorite IDE

[Les Hazlewood]

For me its IntelliJ IDEA hands down, no contest, put a fork in me - I'm
done.

I used Eclipse and JBuilder for a couple of years before being forced to
use IntelliJ - it was a company standard at the company that hired me
and I had no choice.

I complained and grumbled at first, but MAN am I glad I was forced to
use it.  After about 2 weeks of learning IDEA and its keyboard
shortcuts, I was more productive, was able to find things much faster,
and I felt the UI was far more elegant.  It just _feels_ so nice to use
it.  I think the company prides itself on making it intrinsically clean
and simple to use.

Now, after going down the IDEA road for a long time, I find the Eclipse
UI very cludgy - it feels slapped together, the menus are all over the
place and sometimes you have to navigate a confusing tree of selections
just to get what you want.  When you work in an IDE for hours at a time,
every day, these things actually matter a great deal.

For those that know me, I'm a huge open-source enthusiast.  I try to use
quality OS products whenever possible, and I'm a community advocate for
many of them.  So, I think that when I actually pay money for a
closed-source product, even with respectable OS alternatives, it must be
phenomenal.  IntelliJ IDEA is the only piece of software in my arsenal
that I actually pay money for out of my own pocket.  For me, its that
good.

If you can maintain an open mind and really try it out for 2 or 3 weeks,
I think many people on this list would feel the same.  See if you like
it :)

Regards,

Les


On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:03:20 -0400, "Jim Worthington"
<jim.worthington at worthsoft.com> said:
> IntelliJ IDEA. I've tried JBuilder, Eclipse, and NetBeans, but find
> IntelliJ
> the most productive.
> 
> Jim Worthington
> President
> WorthSoft, Inc.
> jim.worthington at worthsoft.com
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