IntelliJ IDEA provides the most flexible option with a full feature set to our engineering organization
July 30, 2021
IntelliJ IDEA provides the most flexible option with a full feature set to our engineering organization
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IntelliJ IDEA
We use IntelliJ IDEA as engineering discretion. If an engineer would like to use it as their IDE, then they can submit a ticket where a license will be provisioned through their SSO. Tapping from the license pool and automatically binding it to our SSO makes it very easy to distribute and manage.
- Key mapping preferences
- Compiling strategies (build now vs build on pause)
- Linked classes/methods (can click onto referring method and go into file)
- Project search
- Sometimes can be a memory hog. Occasionally I'd have to restart IntelliJ to get my machine running smoothly again
- Ease and distribution of license management
- How ease of writing code translates to velocity and throughput
- There are a consistent amount of engineers that use IntelliJ as their go-to IDE. They've either been using it for years or eager to use a non-freeware IDE for the feature set that it opens up
IntelliJ has the richest and most complete set of features out of all the IDEs I've tried. There is the most compatibility across different languages and caters to different compilation strategies. The updates come very regularly, so we know that the product is constantly evolving and getting better. It is the most used across our engineering org.
Do you think IntelliJ IDEA delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IntelliJ IDEA's feature set?
Yes
Did IntelliJ IDEA live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of IntelliJ IDEA go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IntelliJ IDEA again?
Yes