Netbeans vs intellij android#
Netbeans vs intellij software#

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. 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. Feature-rich ideaįor more than five years I’m using the idea.

Netbeans vs intellij software#

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). JetBrains is a company that offers lots of IDEs for different programming languages, one of which is idea. 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. 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. Workspace ergonomics allowed me to completely ditch my mouse, I was able to use solely keyboard in my day to day development.Ĭode hints are so numerous, and if you pay attention to them, you can interactively learn many things that you didn't even know are considered bad practice, are deprecated, etc. Vscode, on the other hand, shows it like: Here is, for instance, how diff looks like in idea Working with git in idea is such a smooth experience, it offers such an intuitive diff viewer (compared to vscode one, which I find confusing), merge conflict resolution window, that helps you easily spot and fix any conflicts. When talking about refactoring in idea this deserves a separate post on its own. Extracting methods to base class, creating interfaces out of classes, using composition instead of inheritance refactoring hints are just amazing. I could not find these goodies in vscode.