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# Page 48 - Reviews of IntelliJ IDEA

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "College work with IntelliJ"

April 17, 2019

4.0

I used IntelliJ for a programming class at college. We solved some simple problems, and IntelliJ performed wonderfully.

Pros

I liked how they listed the files on the left hand side of the page. I loved the personalization options as well. My absolute favorite parts are the debugger and the mini terminal at the bottom of the screen. The terminal is very nice because that way you can run it with the command line args right in there without going through a gui for command line args.

Cons

Honestly, I spent five minutes trying to think what I didn't like and I couldn't find anything that was a real issue.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Computer Science Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great coding aid"

September 3, 2018

5.0

Pros

IntelliJ made it very easy for me to create my first large scale coding project.

Cons

It does take some time to get the hang of how IntelliJ works.

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Santhosh P.  
Lead Technical Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Makes coding in Java a breeze!"

December 18, 2018

5.0

It's very good, the integrated code completion and version control features make my life easier.

Pros

I'll admit that Java is not my favorite programming language, I find it verbose and clunky to use, but with IntelliJ IDEA, it becomes a lot easier to write code in Java. This is mainly because of its code completion features, which are very good at guessing the rest of your syntax, even after you've only typed in a few characters.

Cons

It's a bit of a heavy IDE and can consume a lot of system resources at times.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
founder  
Photography  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "IntelliJ IDEA"

November 2, 2020

5.0

Pros

A robust Integrated Development Environment application, focused on JAVA originally. Free-to-use license.

Cons

Size of installation for upgrades is a little hefty.

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MB

Melikşah B.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Intellij IDEA Review"

November 16, 2022

4.0

Pros

I like the connection to the source code in the application instance

Cons

i dont like the debugging session and source control

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KA

Karthik A.  
Graduate Assistant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great IDE!"

October 30, 2018

5.0

Pros

Lightweight IDE. Feels super smooth. I love the autocompletion tool.

Cons

Feels a bit harder to learn initially. The startup screen can be a bit confusing at first

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MZR

Muhammad Zaryab R.  
Student  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy for coding purpose"

April 28, 2019

5.0

Its very easy to use and save lot of time .

Pros

auto checking of syntax and give correct one.

Cons

its project view is not much better for development purpose

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NK

Nicolaos K.  
Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very good IDE"

July 19, 2019

5.0

Pros

Great tool to use by Java and other developers. Rich features. Quite intuitive to technical people

Cons

Strong competition so I am unsure which one to choose. doesnt stand out

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PP

Pranjal P.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Intellij review"

June 30, 2020

4.0

Overall it has greatly helped me with the project development and I recommended it to all.

Pros

It have a very friendly and customizable theme layout. It gives suggestions while writing code. Many third party tools/api can be incorporated into it. It support various programming languages. It is good and work as a single IDE for all sort of project developments.

Cons

It is very heavy weight and pricing is too much high. It starts slowly initially and sometimes the error it throws are less meaningful.

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HK

Har K.  
Student Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "User experience"

April 15, 2021

5.0

Pros

The autosuggest feature and for projects involving Java.

Cons

Can be made a little faster so that it doesn't occupy much RAM.

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RA

Robin A.  
Member of Technical Staff  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Intelligent IDE "

March 17, 2019

5.0

Pros

IntelliJ Idea has a best auto complete feature which helps the developer no need to remember library functions and i suggests them automatically which is very lovely. It works with all major languages and helps the developer job by making it easy with the help of numerous plugins that it supports.

Cons

It has high price and is a very big software and so takes a lot of system resources which make it slow.SO sometimes features have to be disabled to make it fast.

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TH

Timothy H.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "IntelliJ Review"

October 1, 2019

4.0

Pros

Has a bunch of features, supports huge customization

Cons

Needs more sensible defaults, if their exists a python interpreter default to that rather than none

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JRR

José Ramón R.  
Senior Manager  
Food Production  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Good but nothing extraordinary"

June 10, 2022

4.0

Pros

It is a good IDE, I've used for many years, it is good for advanced users

Cons

It doesn't have anything to keep me using it, I end up changing between IDEs, since some integrations are for Eclipse or some other IDEs, also there is no docs on how to integrate some things. For new users can be a bit challenging

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DL

Danilo L.  
Data Analyst  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great Java IDE"

August 24, 2019

4.0

Pros

Easy to Use Tons of features Almost perfect for Java

Cons

Too Expensive A little bit heavy, compared to competitors

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SS

Sadie S.  
software developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great IDE for Java Development"

February 12, 2019

5.0

Pros

I liked how it wasn't too hard to transition from Visual Studio to Intellij when it came to features. The IDE has a lot of features I can use to write my code and I think JetBrains did a great job thinking of us when they designed it

Cons

A little bit of a challenge to find certain features and settings.

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AJ

Aman J.  
Student  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Must have IDE for JAVA"

March 16, 2018

4.0

Pros

Very good ui and gets code suggestions by pressing alt+enter. useful for improving product delivery efficiency. Support for maven , selenium etc.

Cons

I dont like that it is priced and community version is avialbale only for limited time. Gives suggestion but indexing is slow and can be improved.

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MB

Mike B.  
Software Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "I love IntelliJ IDEA!"

June 7, 2017

4.0

Pros

I love the syntax highlighting and the refactoring options. Their linter is also very hard to beat for writing Java.

Cons

Sometimes the program can be a little laggy. This can be expected on a computer that is really old, but my computer is very fast and it can take up a lot of processing power.

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DE

D E.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### "Intellij sets the standard for fully featured IDEs"

January 9, 2017

5.0

I've been using Intellij for years. I admit I started out skeptical that I'd want to purchase a product like Intellij when I can get something that I thought was similar for free. One persistent developer that was passionate about Intellij convinced me to try it. If you're a software professional you owe it to yourself to give it a try! I can talk about many great features but instead, I will tell you that what Intellij IDEA will do is make you more productive. If you work for yourself or by the hour it will pay for itself in a week. If you work for someone else it will make you better than those around you.

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GAB

Ghulam Ali B.  
software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Tons of features for tons of price"

August 19, 2022

4.0

Pros

I like how you have the best IntelliSense and best integration tools at one place and you hardly have to leave the IDE to do any other application related work.

Cons

The only con is that the pricing is quite high and usually a small-scale engineer is forced to work on any other platform rather than even using the free version

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WT

Wei T.  
Developer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Cool design. does more than what it looks!"

May 15, 2018

5.0

Pros

Can program many different type of language without installing anything. There's some functions that are already built in that are required to download if you are using other code editor

Cons

cluttered. there's many buttons everywhere but easily understandble. software slightly slow and consume quite an amount of cpu

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YC

Yash C.  
student  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Integrated development environment for maximising productivity"

April 6, 2022

5.0

Pros

This software has been a great tool while writing code, in reducing the time for coding, great autocomplete feature.

Cons

Overall the software is great, nothing in particular that I didn't like.

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dH

duong H.  
Tester  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "My review about IntelliJ"

August 20, 2020

4.0

Pros

I currently work at a software development company so using the IDE is a certainty and IntelliJ is the application I still use today. IntelliJ supports users quite well compared to previous applications I have used, in terms of the ability to suggest, the ability to use many different languages.

Cons

Due to the fact that I am not using it in-depth at present, I do not feel what I am not satisfied with with this product

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GOV

Guilherme Oliveira V.  
Developer  
Education Management  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "IntelliJ IDEA: awesome tool to Java coding"

November 6, 2020

4.0

A friend of mine used this IDE in a Java project for the university and I reviewed this project using his machine.

Pros

The IDE has the same incredible things that any IntellIJ IDE has: incredible code completion, easy file and project management, beautiful themes and lots of plug-ins and extra features.

Cons

Like almost any IntellIJ IDE, it offers many incredible features, but with heavy performance, which makes it difficult for users without powerful hardware.

Review Source

SP

Siddhant P.  
Software Engingeer  
Management Consulting  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Excellent IDE for JAVA Development"

January 8, 2021

5.0

Pros

I love all jetbrain products and IntelliJ IDEA is one of the best! Excellent software for Java development. Love the auto-complete feature, debugger and ease-of-deployment

Cons

Heavy software and takes times to boot up and index

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CK

Chirag K.  
Student  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The software enables better functionality"

April 11, 2018

5.0

Pros

The software has a very good user interface for compiling and run files. Project files are easily accessible.

Cons

The themes of the software aren't that good as to be expected. The software takes more time to boot.

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