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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.
Google App Engine is a multi-language platform for app developers that streamlines server management, configuration, and deployment. It targets users seeking to scale apps rapidly for worldwide use.
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 particularly value how well Google Cloud services are integrated, since it has enabled me to use robust capabilities like Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage and manage my resources more effectively.
But if I had to choose one aspect of Google App Engine that I dislike most, it would be the price.
I particularly value how well Google Cloud services are integrated, since it has enabled me to use robust capabilities like Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage and manage my resources more effectively.
I am a bit skeptical about the amount of personal information that is required on sign up alone.
The platform offers strong capabilities to facilitate the development and deployment of my apps and supports a wide range of programming languages.
It sometimes had glitches and sometimes can be hard to use.
I really like the fact that Google App Engine is user friendly and straight forward.
There are no aspects of thos app that are not good.
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.
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