No longer just a backwater blog...
A bit of an exaggeration, but I've noticed a bit of traffic from Rob Harwood's blog, from this post in particular. I feel the need to respond to Rob.
Firstly, I wouldn't say that I'm reluctant about discovering IntelliJ. The smart people I know use IntelliJ. I want to know why. I've asked them in the past and none of them has ever been able to give me a better concrete answer than "It's just really good". And now I can understand why.
IntelliJ just seems to do all the small things right, or at least better than any other IDE I've used. But then I would have said the same thing about Eclipse the first time I used it as well. And all those small things are sometimes hard to capture and enumerate when someone queries you on why the IDE is better. It just is.
Now, maybe I can get an license in exchange for my endorsement? 8)
posted by Doug @ 11:13 AM
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Hi Doug,
I only meant reluctant in the sense of 'getting over the hump'. Some of your comments seemed very skeptical. Sorry if I misinterpreted. Take a look at this guy's blog: http://tantlinger.f2o.org/archives/2005/03/entry_10.php?show_id=10
He says "Eclipse feels like an old comfortable pair of sneakers where as Netbeans feels like a new pair of galoshes." That's the kind of 'reluctance' I meant. By the way, check out my comment on that blog. ;-)
Also by the way, the next best thing to a free license is to join the Early Access Program (see EAP link at http://intellij.net/). Once you get familiar with 4.5 after a couple of weeks, you can check out the EAP version of 5.0, code named Irida. EAP access is free, and you get to try the newest features. A lot of folks find EAP releases addictive. ;-) (Note: EAP is like a super-pre-beta and will have bugs for sure, so use it with care. It has stabilized a lot recently though, so I feel comfortable recommending it to you.)
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