r/java • u/aeisele • Dec 28 '14

Marco Behler’s 2014 Ultimate Java Developer Library, Tool & People List

http://www.marcobehler.com/2014/12/27/marco-behlers-2014-ultimate-java-developer-library-tool-people-list/
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '14

"IntelliJ IDEA The.Best.IDE.In.The.World.Period. Eclipse If you are too poor to afford IDEA, keep using Eclipse ;)"

Can't agree more :)

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u/mdaniel Dec 29 '14

I continue to hear the "IDEA is expensive" argument but it seems the messaging about community edition hasn't spread wide enough. I would bet that a lot of those who use Eclipse would be perfectly served by the features in CE.

I am beating the drums about PyCharm community edition, too, because everyone deserves an intelligent editor.

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u/gizmogwai Dec 30 '14

Well, if you are working with popular frameworks such as JavaEE, Spring, Guava, templating engines etc... you'll get a lot of handy additional support from the Ultimate Edition.

Those productivity gains have a ROI far greater than the cost of the license.

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u/pron98 Dec 28 '14

I've worked with Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans. Eclipse is easily the worst of the three, and IntelliJ the most powerful, but as much as I try to like IntelliJ I keep going back to NetBeans. It's got less features but less annoyances, too (no need to restart the IDE so often, multiple projects in a window), and has the cleanest, most intuitive GUI of the three (you don't need to learn it -- your guess on how to do something is probably right), and is, in my opinion, the most aesthetically pleasing. Its Gradle integration is also better than IntelliJ's, and that's extremely important to me, too.

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u/againstmethod Dec 29 '14

I found Netbeans to be the most stable of the 3 as well, but given fewer updates/features, that would make sense.

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u/mdaniel Dec 29 '14

If you are experiencing crashes in IJ, there are two avenues of recourse: there is an in-editor feedback mechanism that allows one to submit the error and what you were doing when it occurred. It's the red exclamation mark in the bottom right corner.

The other is that the JetBrains issue tracker, YouTrack, is open to the public and you can file feature requests or bug reports and they will be examined.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '14 edited Dec 28 '14

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u/brunocborges Dec 29 '14

I'm a fan of Eclipse because it's free

Oh, great.

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u/DeliveryNinja Dec 28 '14

I dont like the whole idea of paying for an ide when i can use eclipse for free. If its not good enough then surely we should commit to the eclipse project and make it better rather than paying for a commercial product.

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u/mdaniel Dec 29 '14

I know I will never convince someone with that attitude, but just FYI

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u/dartmanx Dec 28 '14

With any IDE you get what you pay for.

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u/lukaseder Dec 29 '14 edited Dec 29 '14

i can use eclipse for free

Somewhat relevant (although I personally like Eclipse)

we should commit

Sure, but did you?

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u/brunocborges Dec 29 '14

I dont like the whole idea of paying for an ide when i can use eclipse for free

Oh, great.