Why I like intelliJ (and hate Eclipse)

18 Feb 2006 19:09 - (0) comments

Upgrading intelliJ 5.0 to 5.1

Time wasted on upgrading: 10 minutes.
Everything seems to work like a charm!

Upgrading Eclipse 3.1.0 to 3.1.2

Time wasted on upgrading: 3 hours at least, and it's still buggy!

Why can't Eclipse remember where I saved my workspaces?
It's a real drag to manually find out where I saved my workspaces (they are in the directories that contain a hidden .metadata directory).

Why do I need to reinstall all the plugins?
Eclipse is unusable for 'Enterpise' Java web development without plugins, even if these plugins are slow and buggy. After a couple of months it's hard to remember the names of the ones I had to install.

Why can't I import key-bindings?
This is the thing I hate the most. I want my keyboard shortcuts to be the same on intelliJ and Eclipse. Since I think Eclipse sucks I prefer to use the intelliJ keybindings. Initially it took me a hour to map my Eclipse keys to the intelliJ key-bindings. I thought I could easily import/export these to other workspaces. I was wrong. Eclipse only allows you to export key-bindings. Apparently no one has yet thought of adding import support.