But if I have to choose - I'll focus on teams only. Try to be objective, and please only answer if you had substantial experience with both tools.Įdit: The scope of work I'm looking for is both for working on private projects and as part of a team of several developers working on the same product. What does Eclipse give me that IntelliJ lacks? What does IntelliJ give me that Eclipse lacks?

I'll narrow the question down to the world of Java SE and Java EE only. But this is exactly what I said about Visual Studio 2005 ( C#) before starting to work on Eclipse - and now I can't even write a Hello World in VS without getting annoyed. I know what Eclipse does and frankly I'm not missing anything.

I have been working with Eclipse for quite some time and recently got several recommendations to use IntelliJ.Īs I just saw that questions of the format of ' Which IDE is better?' are frowned upon (not without a good reason) - I wanted to know objectively what are the advantages of IntelliJ over Eclipse.

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