[PJUG Javamail] Free version of IntelliJ...

[Chris Kessel/Lou Doherty]

That's sort of the point. Individuals, students, hobbyists, etc that need a
decent Editor get one. It's their lead in for the full version. If you need
Enterprise software then you're probably doing business work and you don't
get a free ride. It's always bugged me that it's corporations that get the
big benefit from open source rather than the original intended individual
developers with shallow pockets, so I like the community/profession edition
balance.

 

FWIW, I'd buy IntelliJ out of pocket over a free Eclipse. It's that much
better. At ~$300 for a personal copy, it only needs to make me roughly .3%
(3/10 of 1%) more efficient than Eclipse to pay itself off in a year.
Personally, after having used Eclipse a little and watched coworkers use it,
I'm pretty sure I get that much gain from IntelliJ in a week.

 

Your mileage obviously will vary though.

 

Chris

 

From: javamail-bounces at pjug.org [mailto:javamail-bounces at pjug.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Mayzak
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:20 AM
To: David H Elrod
Cc: javamail at pjug.org
Subject: Re: [PJUG Javamail] Free version of IntelliJ...

 

I came across this yesterday and, as an Intellij user, was excited.  That
was until I looked at the feature comparison.  The free Community edition is
so stripped down that it is almost useless for JavaEE development and
completely useless for Grails...

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/editions_comparison_matrix.html
Nice try JetBrains!  

I recommend checking out STS from Spring source. It is by far the best
eclipse IDE I have tried yet.
http://www.springsource.com/products/sts

-Steve

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:43 AM, David H Elrod <dhelrod at rivendell.com>
wrote:

Did I miss the PJUG announcement about a free version of IntelliJ
IDEA?

See:
   http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/free_java_ide.html#linux

There are versions for Linux, Mac OS and that other operating
system.

I like Eclipse and recent versions of NetBeans, but I've also
heard great things about IntelliJ and was interested in what
was worth paying that much money for.  Its just hard to justify
$500+ to just satisfy my curiosity.

Now I just need to find the hours to give it a shot... (grin!)

David

P.S. Sorry if this is already old news...


_______________________________________________
Web Site - http://www.pjug.org/
Javamail mailing list
Javamail at pjug.org
http://www.pjug.org/mailman/listinfo/javamail

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.pjug.org/pipermail/javamail/attachments/20091016/405b5ccc/attachment.html