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I used NetBeans for Java development, and I find quite good. But still, I continue to look for better opportunities, and I stumbled upon "free" version of IntelliJ IDEA.
So, my question: Is that IntelliJ "Community Edition" more powerfull than NetBeans, and if yes, how? Is it worth spending time to learn it?
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When compared with IntelliJ, NetBeans is faster and integrates the environment in a better manner. Also, it is lighter in memory and helps the developer to code network programming. IntelliJ does not have any of these attributes in its kit. Being stable makes IntelliJ better software for bigger applications.
Yes, both IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and PyCharm Community Edition IDEs (Community IDEs) can be used for developing proprietary and commercial software. The only exceptions are related to creating derivative products or commercializing the Community IDEs.
IntelliJ IDEA creates a project for an entire code base and a module for each of its individual components. NetBeans projects are more like IntelliJ IDEA modules. Unlike NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA cannot open multiple projects in the same window.
Community Edition is free and open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0. It provides all the basic features for JVM and Android development. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is commercial, distributed with a 30-day trial period. It provides additional tools and features for web and enterprise development.
Just go ahead and use IntelliJ for a week. If you love it, you love it.
In the beginning, one of the point people often raised about IntelliJ is that you don't have to learn it. It just helps you when and where you need it. It's almost as if the designers of the IDE are also programmers and they know what we really want.
Most of these helps are preverved today (and copied by Eclipse and Netbeans). So I don't think your experiment with IntelliJ will be wasting a lot of your time, even if in the end you decide against it.
And it's going to be an absolute shame if IBM and Oracle crushed IntelliJ. They are the cooperations that patent things like how to draw a line on screen, yet they have no conscience whatsoever when it comes to blatantly copysteal legitimate innovations from a small company in Russia. It's not like IntellJ can launch a legal battle against these two giants, that's suicidal.
So as a programmer myself, I appeal to all programmers to ditch Eclipse and Netbeans.
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