Comments on: IntelliJ IDEA Open Sourced

By: Jacob Dixon

Jacob Dixon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:43:59 +0000

Its a very exciting news for many application developers as they can convert this open source technology as per their needs and use as per their choice. I hope there would be a long list of users to join this community within a short period of time.

By: Fan of the Source

Fan of the Source — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:42:50 +0000

I just wanted to come back and say thank you for opening the source. I just re-upped from 9.x to 10.x ultimate. I think the price is more than fair and I will always have the tools I purchased in a form I can modify. I actually *own* the products I purchase. I love it.

– A Happy IntelliJ 10 user, releasing the source only reaffirmed my love for IntelliJ.

By: Johan

Johan — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:30:26 +0000

@Jeff,

I will try to answer that. US$250 is a lot of money yes, but… There’s always a but.

If you bash off people as fanboys or “maybe even a Jetbrains employee” it simply means that you could be a different fanboy yourself or just too stingy to fork out that much for an excellent IDE. Excellent in the way that it helps you to excel.
“To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something; To be much better than others” - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/excel
I “grew up” using Eclipse, so I didn’t really bother to try something else, although I explored Netbeans too. So when IntelliJ Community Edition was released I jumped at the opportunity and gave it a try.

To my amazement it was faster, less cluttered, streamlined, logically presented and just plainly put: the tool for the job. Over the time I’ve been using it, I also noticed that it encouraged me to better coding styles.

It’s kind-of like the “organic”-hype people have about food. You get Eclipse like you get normal veggies/fruit, the fruit that everyone buys. But then you get organic veggies and fruit that people just think to be a money-making scam. But in the end, check the biological composition for yourself and see what is best. IntelliJ IDEA is that organic IDE.

If this isn’t descriptive enough, try it out for 3 months and you’ll understand.

I’m in the process of saving up for the Enterprise Edition, just because it’s worth it.

By: Jeff Schwartz

Jeff Schwartz — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:16:09 +0000

@Ssundar,

Your response is pure emotional with no facts. Just because you ‘feel’ that way doesn’t make it so. If you had provided actual side by side comparisons supporting your opinion then I might have taken you seriously. But as it stands now you just come off as IntelliJ fanboy or maybe even a Jetbrains employee.

So does anyone else out there want to tell me why IntelliJ is worth $250 more than Eclipse v3.6?

By: Ssundar

Ssundar — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:56:06 +0000

I am using IntelliJ for more than two years(starting 6.x) and I must say there are valid reasons to be considered as the best. This 9.x is one step ahead of all. Good luck.

By: Jeff Schwartz

Jeff Schwartz — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:42:00 +0000

Can someone tell my why IntelliJ is worth $250 more than Eclipse v3.6?

By: satyanarayana

satyanarayana — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:14:23 +0000

I am new to intel IDE .Can any help how to import and export Project from Intelj and also how to work with the IDE

By: sendi

sendi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:44:23 +0000

how do you setup tomcat with this community IJ release ?

By: beko

beko — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:36:13 +0000

But why???

By: Mr Grumpy

Mr Grumpy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:53 +0000

The community edition looks like really useful, if it’s 1997 and you’ve just bought the first edition of Java Servlet Programming.