IntelliJ IDEA Reviews

Summary: I have been using it for a long time now, and my overall experience has been great, not only easy to use. It makes all the other coding stuff easier. If you are a beginner, you should avoid it other than that is best for anyone.

Positive: You can use basic features in the community version, easy to use with an excellent user interface. It makes managing codes seamless, and plugins can further help you in coding with ease.

Negative: For more customized features, you need to buy the paid version. Moreover, for even necessary coding, you need to download a heavy setup.

Summary: If you need to do high-level coding and work on every coding stage, you can do it all with this software. Moreover, it is fast and gives a robust performance.

Positive: Provides essentials, like color schema, auto-completion, floating warnings in real-time.
Have a lot of plugins, making it an all-rounder and pretty much good for every Java-related coding.

Negative: Huge size and confusing user Interface, not student-friendly pricing.
They should increase and improve the support they provide.

Summary: Overall a great experience and surely an ergonomic code editor with tons of great features and functionalities. If you are a Java Developer this is a must tool for you. Handling projects will become more easy and it will surely save a lot of your time.

Positive: IntelliJ Idea has some of the best features out there in the market. It has auto suggestions, have a clean ecosystem, saves a lot of time, easy to work upon, etc. You can easily integrate this with other apps too. It come with a number of plugins that you can use as per your needs.

Negative: The only problem with this is that this is a bit heavy thats why it's lags sometimes. Apart from that I don't find any con in using this.

Summary: My overall experience was excellent. Never faced an issue, it is easy to use and a highly productive IDE.

Positive: Probably the best IDE out there for Java development with great UI, plenty of plugins, time to time updates, easy to understand and work on, autocomplete and suggestion.

Negative: After using this for so many years I have not found any cons.

Summary: IntelliJ IDEA competes strongly with Eclipse/STS for the title of best Java IDE but there is no doubt it is one of the recommended one.

Positive: IntelliJ IDEA is an intelligent JVM IDE making Java development an enjoyable experience. It features smart completion, data flow analysis, code inspection and quick fixes out of the box and even supports lots of integrations to customize it your taste. It also provides a free community edition.

Negative: The free community edition misses out on framework support like Spring and other advanced features and the premium edition has yearly licensing.

Summary: IntelliJ IDEA is a truly smart IDE and is great for beginners and advanced users alike. The Intellisense features makes it a pleasure to use for any scale development activity.

Positive: Easy to use & excellent interface.
Available for free with Github student developer pack.
Great support.
Integrates with tons of third party tools like git, docker.
Lots of plugins.
Frequent releases.

Negative: Resource heavy especially memory.
Ultimate edition is expensive.

Summary: I had a great experience with the IntelliJ while learning and developing.
I love it a lot. The best IDE I've used so far.

Positive: Auto completes the code perfectly.
Reduces the work for the developer.
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is the best for java development.

Negative: The ultimate version of IntelliJ IDEA is a bit costly.