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I honestly have no idea why anyone pays for intellij besides a couple of the more niche editors, maybe.

For Java development nothing comes close. VSCode feels like a text editor in comparison, even with its extensions

As for general development JetBrains just works. VSCode requires a bunch of extensions made by different independent authors with different standards and it just feels glued together and inconsistent

As if.

InteliJ only recently acquired the capability to use Clion plugins for JNI development, something that Eclipse and Netbeans have been capable of for the last 20 years, more or less.

They still don't have an incremental Java compiler, yeah you can use the one from Eclipse, so there is yet another thing that it doesn't do better.

Finally, what is with all that indexing after all these years?

Fair enough, I'm not a Java developer actually, but I know all the guys in work use it over everything else. I've tried VSCode for Java development a few years ago and it wasn't suitable as an IDE, just as a file editor.

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