Václav Pech

Václav is a programming enthusiast who's constantly seeking ways to make development more effective and enjoyable. He's particularly interested in server-side Java technologies, distributed systems, concurrency, agile methodologies, modern programming languages and DSLs.
He works for JetBrains as a senior software developer and a technology evangelist. He is also a board member of the JetBrains Academy. On the side, he's leading the GPars project, an opensource concurrency library, and investigates the domains of neural networks, evolutionary programming and data mining. You can check out his blog or follow him on twitter.
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Top developers need top programming tools

09.23.2010

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It's a sign of good craftmanship to permanently assess the tools you use, look out for what else is available and re-adjust your toolset in order to improve the way you perform the art od coding.

InfoWorld has evaluated four most popular Java IDEs - Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and JDeveloper, compared them and distilled their findings into a side-by-side comparison article. My IDE scored the highest. How did yours?

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Borne Mace replied on Thu, 2010/09/23 - 8:58am

If you remove what is the most subjective part of the review, ease of use, eclipse wins by a fair margin. It isn't that it doesn't take a little getting used to. But once you are used to it the time spent is well worth it IMHO.

Cristian Vasile... replied on Thu, 2010/09/23 - 12:32pm

@Borne: give IntelliJ a chance for one or two months and you will never go back. Guaranteed. Hapened to me and to many of my friends.

Alessandro Santini replied on Thu, 2010/09/23 - 12:37pm

I think that the comparison is flawed from two points of view -

Mixes commercial and free tools;
Ignores a wealth of other Eclipse distributions which come with pre-bundled, pre-tested plugins.

Having said that, and carefully trying not to open a flame bait, I think that NetBeans and Eclipse win hands-down over NetBeans primarily for their features/price ratio. IntelliJ was a very nice tool but it is nowadays bloated with things one does not always need.

As a foot note, I believe that top developers are capable of achieving what they have to do irrespective of the tooling they have to use. I have rarely seen a chef blaming a kitchen for not having the brand of oven they want.