IntelliJ IDEA Reviews

Due to its cost, I believe it is best suited for enterprise since its subscription model is really costly at 199$ per year. I got it on a students' subscription but again, this is a very professional IDE and if you want to use it only for web, I believe it would be going over the top since for simple web development there are cheaper alternatives. But if you are a java and a web developer and can afford it, go for it!

Definitely I'll recommend IDEA IntelliJ for anyone, it's IDE standard for now. Even if you don't have the money for a subscription, you can try the Community Edition to find out all the pros of using IDEA.

Suitable for creating project, whether in Windows or Linux. Since it is well associated with Open Source, its concept of depth gives it a wide field like native apps.

It is a very smart Java IDE that I enjoy using, and would recommend it as the go-to program to develop Java applications.

IntelliJ is well suited for Java development. It is also well suited for Typescript/Javascript and PHP projects, including Angular, React, or other front-end technologies.

IntelliJ is less appropriate for database modeling and is also less suited for REST service design.

IntelliJ IDEA recently helped me in refactoring an old code base. Its code duplication and referenced object features helped immensely in understanding the project and helped me write code more efficiently. Most of the IDE features require learning a lot of keyboard shortcuts if you want to save time, but this is a steep learning slope as memorizing them takes time. In the end, you only use features for which you remember keyboard shortcuts.

Great Java and Scala IDE. Good for polyglot. But for web, you’re better off using another solution.

If one wants to develop applications using the Java or even the Kotlin language, IntelliJ IDEA is well suited for this. It shines in its suggestion tips, marvelous debugging features, and ability to easily create unit tests right out of the box. It comes fully integrated with Gradle, therefore, dependencies can be easily managed.

Don't use this if you want to do .Net development because a lot of plugins would have to be added to the IDE to fully support all the features that one would need. However, it can be done regardless with a little effort.

I really cannot think of a scenario where IntelliJ IDEA is not appropriate or is less appropriate! Whether it is your pet project or a full-blown enterprise development, IDEA will do its part, gracefully and beautifully. Throw in a few plugins (Python, Go etc.) and you have all your non-Java projects covered as well.

IntelliJ IDE is well suited for creative projects in Ruby, Java, AspectJ, HTML, and CSS. Personally, I use Java only for Java projects. It makes my job easier. It is very good that I quickly understood that IntelliJ IDEA is one of the best IDEs and definitely did not change it for anything else.

The IDE is ideal for Java related development work. However, if you want to maintain only a single IDE in your arsenal IntelliJ IDEA will do a great job. Since at our company we do most of our development atop the Salesforce platform we need to use the Illuminated Cloud plugin to integrate into the IDE. Since this tool is fairly resourced intensive, many developers might just be better off going with Visual Studio code for some lightweight work.

IntelliJ IDEA is, in my opinion, the gold standard for Java development. I would recommend it for medium-to-large Java projects, in medium-to-large teams, where its code analysis features help with understanding the codebase and more productive collaboration. The enterprise version of IntelliJ IDEA is required for Java EE applications, and it is fairly pricey. However, if Java applications are your organisation's bread and butter, IDEA is still positioned as a worthwhile investment.

It is well-suited for dynamic software development that involves many libraries/plugins integrations with the workspace. Also well-suited in places where the code repository is maintained by a version control.

There are many editors out there, and the most popular ones are free of course, so why make this investment? I used to like Atom editor a lot, but you have to install a whole ton of software to make it work the way you want it to. IntelliJ, on the other hand, is customized to meet most needs. There are linters, code checks, terminal, etc all built in. Working with intelliJ has taught me to write even better code. The "code inspection" tool finds even the slightest mistake like spellings in your code, and I tend to fix them, making my code base better every day. IntelliJ simply amazes me in how much better I have become.

But despite lots of benefits, IntelliJ is costly. Its major competitor, Eclipse, does all of these, for free! But IntelliJ in IMHO is easier to work with. Better style, better code inspection, etc, etc makes the price worth it. If you are worried about price, Eclipse as I said, works equally good, with most of benefits provided, if not all.

It's great for developing large, complex full stack applications as it supports so many different frameworks and languages. It will integrate with other JetBrains products like TeamCity to give you instant feedback about your builds. It is less useful if you just want to write some scripts or quickly edit some files.

I use it for pretty much everything, from Java development to scripting. However, some of the developers will use it only for larger development tasks and wouldn't use it for, say, bash scripting, where they feel it is somewhat heavyweight for a task like that.