> But I’ll retract my downvote if you add any reasons for why you think eclipse is superior?

Because downvoting isn't intended to stifle someone else's perfectly valid opinion maybe?

Downvoting is for posts that add nothing to the discussion? Which his post literally doesn’t unless he actually explains why he prefers eclipse

I've happily been using Eclipse for years for Java development and have never used IntelliJ. I feel very productive in Eclipse and feel no urge to change.

Same here. I don't see a big need to switch off Eclipse. It has all the features I need to be productive in Java.

I responded to someone else who asked the same question in this thread. Can I have an update now? :)

I tried intellij and thought it was pretty crap. I don't remember all the things I didn't like, but I found it almost completely unusable.