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IntelliJ IDEA is designed for those who use Java and Kotlin in their enterprise, web, mobile backend, and full-stack applications and is used by software developers all over the world.
Development teams at startups and small businesses to Fortune 50 companies use GitHub, every step of the way.
Has a great marketplace for plugins and great interface and shortcuts to navigate and edit faster. It helps me code better with suggestions and navigate my code fast.
Uses a lot of resources. This issue is very annoying and happens very often, which can be really frustrating and damage your developing experience.
It works well with lots of frameworks and debugging capability is very good. Integration with git is very good and makes the code check in process seamless.
It is a known issue that most of the IDEs haven' detailed error messages, maybe they can improve this, sometimes the errors are more frustrating.
The autocomplete is amazing, and the debugger is super intelligent and makes it super easy to find bugs and fix unintended behaviors.
When I shoot a new project, my old projects deteriorate. I need to do the dependency settings again.
Overall experience with IntelliJ IDEA is very good and better than Eclipse. I found it as one of the best IDE for Java development.
A number of the other IDEs on the market are resource heavy and sluggish.
I love that the developers release their projects on there to share with the world. It is really cost efficient for people who don’t have much money to spend but need good quality software.
Sometimes when there is a long pull request it can be quite tedious to look over and see recent changes. Also bad merge operations can cause a world of trouble that is difficult to reverse.
GitHub has great documentation available, it is a great tool for code collaboration and remote collaboration, and provides a nice and simple way to have code and version history available online.
The cons of this is that there is no certainty that each development works well or that it has a bug that may generate a problem or error.
I like how it's easy to use and intuitive, but also offers enough customization for when we need it. I would recommend this to anyone in the market for a good version control software.
The search function is quite often bad. Also a dark mode is missing.
Community is super friendly and it’s a great platform to work on certain coding activities with a group of people.
It also sadly has no mobile app/mobile support at all.
Philip T.: My name is Phil. I'm a writer and I give IntelliJ IDEA 5-stars. I decided to try and learn how to write code for Android applications, so I used IntelliJ IDEA as the environment to do that work. It has absolutely everything on it. It's all in one place. Easy to navigate as well and nice clean interface. It was easy to use. I picked it up really quickly. The Help files could probably be improved for IntelliJ IDEA because it offers so much that you can do. There's a lot that you need to learn. So if you're new to the platform, there's a very steep learning curve.
Sebastian B.: I'm Sebastian. I'm the CEO of Toyoko, and I give GitHub five out of five. I've been using SPN and so forth. They were good products, but they were centralized. That's why I switched to GitHub. I started using GitHub because everybody was doing, so I started to check it, and then I saw that it was better, especially from SPN, because I noticed a more distributed workflow. Starting with GitHub was not easy at the beginning, but now when I add somebody to the team to use GitHub, it's way easier because it improved a lot related with tutorial and documentation. So if I have to start from scratch now with GitHub, it would be easy for me. I think that GitHub nowadays is the default software for sharing and building applications. So there's not much to choose, only GitHub and GitLab, and I think that GitHub has way more features, and GitHub is the place where most people will look for your software.
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