These guys are User Interface Gods in my opinion. The tool isn’t for the newbie at all but it’s a monster in the hands of a professional. I love these improvements.
And they clearly also like to have some fun. I absolutely adore the fact that the text anti-aliasing drop down uses the appropriate setting on each setting, i.e. the text that says “No hinting” has no hinting while the text that says “Full hinting” has full hinting - all in the same drop down.
I have been using IntelliJ in anger for years and I find none of it intuitive or even powerful. Also, I waste at least 30 minutes each day when it is “Indexing….” Eclipse had a reliable incremental compiler 15 years ago, IntelliJ still does not have one. I never understood all the hype around it tbh.
I’ll admit that IntelliJ has its faults, but once I picked up a few tricks with it I found it to be immensely helpful in my Scala work. Compared to just a text editor the type checking and hinting alone is a huge productivity boost, and I find the indexing helpful for jumping around quickly between relevant bits of code. Is your codebase extremely large? Even on my laptop indexing only took a few seconds at most.
That said, the compiler does still need a bit of work and there’s certainly a learning curve to it. Still, I’m glad I spent the hours to get used to it. Never tried Eclipse for Scala though, after hearing everybody’s complaints.
These guys are User Interface Gods in my opinion. The tool isn’t for the newbie at all but it’s a monster in the hands of a professional. I love these improvements.
And they clearly also like to have some fun. I absolutely adore the fact that the text anti-aliasing drop down uses the appropriate setting on each setting, i.e. the text that says “No hinting” has no hinting while the text that says “Full hinting” has full hinting - all in the same drop down.
Gods, period. Painful to make a plugin? Make an IDE. Painful to support a language? Make a language.
I have been using IntelliJ in anger for years and I find none of it intuitive or even powerful. Also, I waste at least 30 minutes each day when it is “Indexing….” Eclipse had a reliable incremental compiler 15 years ago, IntelliJ still does not have one. I never understood all the hype around it tbh.
I’ll admit that IntelliJ has its faults, but once I picked up a few tricks with it I found it to be immensely helpful in my Scala work. Compared to just a text editor the type checking and hinting alone is a huge productivity boost, and I find the indexing helpful for jumping around quickly between relevant bits of code. Is your codebase extremely large? Even on my laptop indexing only took a few seconds at most.
That said, the compiler does still need a bit of work and there’s certainly a learning curve to it. Still, I’m glad I spent the hours to get used to it. Never tried Eclipse for Scala though, after hearing everybody’s complaints.