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Marill
6y

Follow up to my (ignorant) previous rant.

Context: Eclipse vs intelliJ
Situation: Was too comfortable with eclipse. knew shortcuts in the back of my palm. Loved the light theme. Argued with anyone who blindly believed IntelliJ is better than eclipse.
Action: Forced myself to try IntelliJ. Stepped out of my comfort zone. Got a one day code block. Changed to darcula. My eyes struggled to read. My fingers typed usual eclipse shortcuts to discover unknown windows.
Verdict: after two days of learning and not giving up. I have started loving IntelliJ and I know why.
Moral: change is good. Get out of your comfort zone ;)

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  • 1
    Lovely insight there.. im thinking of stepping out of netbeans to and moving withcintellij
  • 4
    @Marill what were you developing on eclipse??
  • 0
    @bitsnpieces Restful services and libraries. Vanilla java. No android.
  • 0
    @rui725 you’ll not regret it :-)
  • 5
    @Marill then even I will have to try intellij because even I have gotten all mellow in my eclipse comfort zone..
  • 1
    IDEA got an option to change all shortcuts to match Eclipse standards.

    Also maybe reading this will ease some transition woes: https://jetbrains.com/help/idea/...
  • 0
    @7root that is heroic. Only difference is I started with vim, tried for a little while and gave up to eclipse. Going back to vim needs serious efforts (ditching the keyboard comes first)
  • 0
    @Makenshi thank you!! Now that will save my day. I can’t unlearn few shortcuts from my reflexes
  • 0
    @7root it’s hard to use vim editor..never did like it but it is so portable that you can create scripts inside server terminals.. rather than doing an ftp save file...
  • 2
    IJ is love
  • 2
    With intelliJ there's an option to change the keyboard shortcuts to eclipse and there is a light theme, AND you can change any of the colors.
  • 2
    @rui725 From NetBeans, IntelliJ is a step up, ergonomically. NetBeans has a lot of quirks you sort of get used to, minor discomforts where you only know they bugged you once you switch.
  • 4
    @Marill nope.. I dont think so I can move to IJ.. Eclipse until I die..
  • 0
    @bitsnpieces um but you already have a save actions plugin in IntelliJ for that.
  • 5
    @Marill exactly its a plugin.. why will I add a plugin for something that is already in-built in eclipse..

    Also, their eclipse to ij documentation does not instill much confidence to make the change.. it actually made me not want to try out ij..
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