Comments on: My top 8 reasons to use IDEA over Eclipse http://jakeherringbone.com/2009/08/my-top-8-reasons-to-use-idea-over-eclipse/ My thoughts on life, work, coding, and stuff I like. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kostas http://jakeherringbone.com/2009/08/my-top-8-reasons-to-use-idea-over-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-6633 Kostas Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:53:21 +0000 http://jakeherringbone.com/?p=180#comment-6633 Diff editor is full-featured > Compare editor has enough features for me, i always do "last minute" changes, there. Save on blur > I personally like it that i save on demand. For example when i leave from work, i leave the PC unlocked and everything. The cleaning lady comes in at some point to do their work and she 'll occasionally hit some buttons on the keyboard by mistake. But she won't hit Ctrl+S by mistake. Also, something more important, is that eclipse will start compiling only once you saved the file. If i want to do a lot of changes on a class and i have a pretty good idea on what i want to do beforehand, i start writing very fast thus producing a lot of mistype errors. But i don't want eclipse to start coloring my screen red at that point and start going downhill in performance cause of the amounts of errors. When i have finished writing my code, i 'll save and then review all errors. SVN support built-in > Well i think Eclipse will be there soon with Subversive. But it's not that big deal as you make it sound anyway. Completion shows compatible types -> Are you sure about that? I just installed a brand new version of the community edition of IntelliJ (mostly to see this feature) and i got this: import java.awt.*; [...] Component x = new {that's where i press Ctrl-Space} and that's what's inside the popup menu: java.lang.AbstractMethodError java.awt.ActiveEvent java.awt.Adjustable java.awt.AlphaComposite [...] so, not only the 4 first suggestions, aren't a jawa.awt.Component, but two of them (ActiveEvent, Adjustable) are not even concrete classes. Diff editor is full-featured > Compare editor has enough features for me, i always do “last minute” changes, there.

Save on blur > I personally like it that i save on demand. For example when i leave from work, i leave the PC unlocked and everything. The cleaning lady comes in at some point to do their work and she ‘ll occasionally hit some buttons on the keyboard by mistake. But she won’t hit Ctrl+S by mistake.
Also, something more important, is that eclipse will start compiling only once you saved the file. If i want to do a lot of changes on a class and i have a pretty good idea on what i want to do beforehand, i start writing very fast thus producing a lot of mistype errors. But i don’t want eclipse to start coloring my screen red at that point and start going downhill in performance cause of the amounts of errors. When i have finished writing my code, i ‘ll save and then review all errors.

SVN support built-in > Well i think Eclipse will be there soon with Subversive. But it’s not that big deal as you make it sound anyway.

Completion shows compatible types -> Are you sure about that? I just installed a brand new version of the community edition of IntelliJ (mostly to see this feature) and i got this:

import java.awt.*;
[...]
Component x = new {that’s where i press Ctrl-Space}

and that’s what’s inside the popup menu:

java.lang.AbstractMethodError
java.awt.ActiveEvent
java.awt.Adjustable
java.awt.AlphaComposite
[...]

so, not only the 4 first suggestions, aren’t a jawa.awt.Component, but two of them (ActiveEvent, Adjustable) are not even concrete classes.

]]> By: Brad Green http://jakeherringbone.com/2009/08/my-top-8-reasons-to-use-idea-over-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-4760 Brad Green Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:24:37 +0000 http://jakeherringbone.com/?p=180#comment-4760 My top reason for using vi: Nobody tries to compare their IDE to mine. :) My top reason for using vi: Nobody tries to compare their IDE to mine. :)

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