. It seems to take a long time to “warm up” before IDEA runs as smooth as Eclipse.
. Eclipse is stupid about detecting when you changed a file from outside of Eclipse; IDEA is not. Eclipse is very annoying when you use Emacs/vi/OxygenXML as an additional editor.
. “JetBrains :: IntelliJ IDEA” is a stupid, stupid name.
. Emacs key bindings in Eclipse is better, alt-w and ctrl-y “just works”.
. Maven projects is poorly integrated into Eclipse’s concept of “projects”.
. I miss the native “choose file dialog” you’d get with Eclipse.
. I think the new version has incremental compile like Eclipse, but it doesn’t seem to work by default.
. The Maven daemon in IDEA used around 300MB of memory and continually consumed CPU resources.
. The keyboard stopped working for some reason.
My experience was with the community edition, perhaps I should give the professional edition a try. But at $200 and having had such a poor experience with the community edition, it is a hard sell.
> . Eclipse is stupid about detecting when you changed a file from outside of Eclipse; IDEA is not. Eclipse is very annoying when you use Emacs/vi/OxygenXML as an additional editor.
Go to Preferences > General > Workspace. Enable the "Refresh" option(s) there.
The last time I tried IntelliJ it also had poor BiDi support and the font rendering was crappy compared to Eclipse (Eclipse uses the native platform font rendering, and IntelliJ does not).
I was very frustrated the last time I tried going to IDEA and I wrote about it on my blog (http://www.fisharefriends.us/wordpress/2013/01/27/intellij-i...). My observations:
. It seems to take a long time to “warm up” before IDEA runs as smooth as Eclipse.
. Eclipse is stupid about detecting when you changed a file from outside of Eclipse; IDEA is not. Eclipse is very annoying when you use Emacs/vi/OxygenXML as an additional editor.
. “JetBrains :: IntelliJ IDEA” is a stupid, stupid name.
. Emacs key bindings in Eclipse is better, alt-w and ctrl-y “just works”.
. Maven projects is poorly integrated into Eclipse’s concept of “projects”.
. I miss the native “choose file dialog” you’d get with Eclipse.
. I think the new version has incremental compile like Eclipse, but it doesn’t seem to work by default.
. The Maven daemon in IDEA used around 300MB of memory and continually consumed CPU resources.
. The keyboard stopped working for some reason.
My experience was with the community edition, perhaps I should give the professional edition a try. But at $200 and having had such a poor experience with the community edition, it is a hard sell.