Idea is just super-smart.Ībility to reliably refactor code (not only in static languages world!), workspace ergonomics, code hints, amazing version control diff, merge and conflict resolution and database clients and so on are the things that are hard to find elsewhere.

All those tools share the common codebase, which means that if you have some feature in idea, most likely you may also find it in other tools as well. JetBrains is a company that offers lots of IDEs for different programming languages, one of which is idea. Having tried out lots of tools before it, I can only say that this is a very well designed and carefully thought software product (read in more detail in my previous blog post). Feature-rich ideaįor more than five years I’m using the idea.

I’ve spent more than 5 years using idea (Before that, I was using NetBeans IDE and Apache Eclipse) and also more than two years of using vscode, so let’s break down my findings. If I decided to compare vscode to the idea community edition, I’d only prefer to use the idea for kotlin and android development, vscode in all the other cases.ĭetailed idea Ultimate vs Community edition comparison matrix you can find on the official website.

Lately, I was tempted to try out Visual Studio Code (vscode) editor, after years of using IntelliJ IDEA (idea) IDE.Ī very important thing to note here is that I’m comparing vscode to a commercial product which at the time costing 149 € which you can renew yearly so that you get the updates, or you can perpetually stay with your purchased version for 12 months.

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