Monday, April 26, 2004

finally switching to IDEA I've used eclipse now for a few years and loved it. But on OS X its a little sluggish. I've tried IDEA before and thought it was OK but the support for multi-projects put me off  - I typically work on many projects at the same time, plus I was totally hooked on eclipse's 'problem log' which incrementally rebuilds your project as you edit. So I thought I'd take IDEA for another test drive. Its got modules now which helps work with multi-projects. On OS X its just so fast, whereas there always seems to be a little delay when you do things in eclipse. When you're busy & have lots to do you really don't want to have to wait for your IDE to catch up with your brain & fingers. Well I think its finally gonna happen. Various friends & colleagues have tried to persuade me to switch and I think now I've seen the light. After 3 days solid hacking in IDEA I think its love :) So far the only downside is the CVS support - if you've used eclipse's CVS support you'll probably know what I mean (though they messed it up some in 3.0 M8 with that silly extra dialog on 'synchronize with repository'). But considering how fast I can hack code & refactor in IDEA I'm now sold & the not-so-good CVS support (and the money) are relatively small prices to pay for a real snappy IDE with some very nice features. 9:53:27 AM    comment []