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A month or more ago my daughter entered for an on-line course in computer science, for which she had to do a first year course in elementary Java. She struggled with the Java, and I started tutoring her, learning elementary Java as I went along. I found it to be very similar to C++ which I regard as an old friend.
Her professor guided her (and so myself) to use the Eclipse IDE. I found Eclipse to be totally "adequate", but far from "outstanding".
Then I got sucked in by Java and I wanted to learn more, especially the GUI stuff. I worked my way through a book on Java Swing, only to learn I should rather focus on JavaFX, specifically the FXML variant. I stumbled across the book: "The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX" by Stephen Chin et al. I bought the Kindle version. One part of one chapter explained how to configure IntelliJ IDE for your first project. These few paragraphs alone made the 26 odd bucks I paid for the book worth while. The correct configuration of IntelliJ I found to be non-trivial for a beginner. I don't think I would ever have mastered the configuring of my first "Hello World!" app without this book.
IntelliJ is such a gem of an IDE - such a joy! The good points are too numerous to mention, but a few examples: In the FXML files it will highlight statements that merely replace defaults. If you have a statement like "Insets bottom=0.0", it will recommend deleting the statement as 0.0 is the field's default value. If you abbreviate "description" to "descr", it will state that "desc" is better grammatically. There are many, many other examples.
Did I mention that I love IntelliJ? 
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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I used to use IntelliJ back in the day. I am sure it much nicer now. I really liked it.
I love Jetbrains. I think they make great products.
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We've just migrated our entire team from Eclipse to IntelliJ for our in-house web application development. Had to purchase premium licenses for the full Spring/Tomcat support, but well worth it.
One of the nicest features I've come across is database/persistence automation. If you setup database connections under the Databases panel, and then have some code which references those database tables (in our case entity classes annotated with @Entity and @Table), you can tell IntelliJ which database connections the code is relevant to, and it'll automatically validate that your entities are setup to point to valid tables, columns, and can even auto-generate entities for you. Just one of the small features in the IDE that makes it seem really intuitive.
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JetBrains makes excellent products IMO.
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Cp-Coder wrote: IntelliJ is such a gem of an IDE - such a joy!
Meh - I really tried to like it, but it's a slow, memory-hogging mishmash of poorly integrated features. Not as bad as Eclipse, but still bad. In the end, I ended up using VS Code for writing Java - not great either, but at least not as slow and disruptive.
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I know a lot of Java devs speak very highly of it but I tried it myself several years back when I was doing some Java dev work and found it to be a bit meh. It was also kinda slow.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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My only real gripe is that you can only have one repository open at a time. We have several parallel projects and in Eclipse I can search them all easily.
Same kinda issue with VSCode too, although I did find a way around it in that product.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I've not had the opportunity to use IntelliJ, but I have built a few smaller projects in both the CLion and PyCharm tools. I don't know how either compare to other IDEs, but my experience with each was favorable.
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I've been coding with Rider on a Linux Mint machine and it's been an absolute joy to use.
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In a similar experience with eclipse and IntelliJ, OpenRocket is a sim package for high powered rocketry. The install instructions for building a JAR are for Eclipse. Which does not work correctly out of the box.
IntelliJ on the other hand, was simple. Download, install, build. No fuss no muss.
JP
JP Johnston ME CSWP
Rogue Exploration Technologies
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Does a magazine archivist deal with past issues?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It depend upon what they font to do - if you press them about it and the page attention to your questions - maybe. The also depends if articulate or they meet the deadline.
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Only if they are reading a magazine about LIFE.
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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side... I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Where am I? I appear to be at the bottom of a dark, deep hole. Now what does that remind me of?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you find one that does, please refer him/her/whatever to me. I have a hell of a time dealing with old issues! 
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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They go to the chiropractor to deal with their back issues.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Only if his therapist is not up to date...
I've been married 47 years. They were the best 3 years of my life.
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Talk about random thoughts and I wasn't even high at the time, but it seemed a relevant question. Can quantum computers be applied to bitcoin mining? I mean I don't expect so or I probably would have heard of it. Any related thoughts?
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Hmm.... is the blockchain quantum-safe?
If not, then it eventually means a lot of free money for someone until the news gets out.
A post-Bitcoin Quantumcoin? I see that quantumcoin.com is already taken (apparently by a writer). 
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