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IntelliJ IDEA Is Now My IDE of Choice. Here’s Why.

Published By: Brian Kotek on Jul 9, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Categories: Groovy , ColdFusion , Flex , Development Tools

I've been using IntelliJ IDEA almost exclusively for about a month now, so I feel pretty comfortable saying that it walks all over Eclipse in many ways. I thought I would blog a bit about this IDE and offer some reasons that you might download the trial and give it a whirl.

To start with, all of the expected features are here. That includes code insight and completion, version control integration, Maven integration, multi-language support, integrating debugging, snippets, etc. That's all a given.

Beyond the fact that it has all the key features of any IDE, it has a number of very nice features that make it a highly productive tool. I'll start with language support.

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