Thursday, October 22, 2009

Finding new love in Intellij

Recently Idea has released a community edition of its intellij browser. I had heard so much about it that I decided to give it a shot. The editor is pretty sleek, not shiny like eclipse. In fact the editor looks almost like a notepad window. Good thing is I am liking it, it keeps u closer to ur code without showing too many jazzy stuff, letting me write cleaner code.
Another thing I liked about it the concept of projects and modules in intellij, I think its much better than eclipse's concept of workspace. Again intellij is able to handle multiple modules involving loads of libraries in a much better manner.
The only thing I miss are the shortcuts, even though I am using eclipse key mapping here, but its still not the same. A useful plugin for intellij is key promoter which prompts u to use keyboard shortcuts over mouse. I am using intellij as full time IDE and hope will stick with it.

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