I tried IntelliJ and had the same reaction. I did find that IntelliJ had complete parity once properly configured and shortcuts were learned except for two showstoppers. Complilation was not continous and was slow, and in the debugger you can't pause a specific thread you can only pause all threads.
I did find that some common operations I do through the GUI require more clicks then when I do them in Eclipse. I didn't find it enough better to switch, but I run on fairly honkin hardware (Ivy Bridge i7, 16 gigabytes of RAM) and I changed the Eclipse default heap size to 2g.
I did find that some common operations I do through the GUI require more clicks then when I do them in Eclipse. I didn't find it enough better to switch, but I run on fairly honkin hardware (Ivy Bridge i7, 16 gigabytes of RAM) and I changed the Eclipse default heap size to 2g.