Comment by dijit
2 years ago
Fog of the future not withstanding; most people aren't going to have been using IDEA since 1.0.
If you learned Java between 2001-2012 then the default was Eclipse or netbeans.
So you should not be comparing IDEA from 2001 to today (or any individual IDE), you should be comparing the IDE landscape or ecosystem of 2001 to today, and part of that analysis should be a requirement to weight IDE's based on popularity and the recommendations of established institutions (academia, companies).
So you've changed IDE once in 22 years? That doesn't change the argument in any meaningful way.
I know my school has changed IDE recommendation 7 times in 22 years.
But my point is much, much broader than one persons experience.
> I know my school has changed IDE recommendation 7 times in 22 years.
Just so I understand you correctly - am I using your comment
> That's cool, I didn't know you were most programmers.
correctly here?
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I was using Visual J++ in 1998.
We did a bakeoff of Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA upon its beta in 2001. IDEA won hands down and is still the IDE of choice among the developers who work on our codebase.
My first java IDE was Visual Cafe by Symantec 1999 - and if I remember correctly I started using IDEA around 2002 (and still do - incl. Rider, etc).
That's cool, I didn't know you were most programmers.
I only wanted to mention that certain IDEs still used today are not coming and going but have been around for decades and are still more or less the same (keybinding, etc).
Maybe I just don't understand your comment - even translated it still confuses me tbh. (I'm not a native speaker). Sorry if you feel offended I guess.
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