And zealotry.

Except there's nothing Eclipse offers that anyone could become zealous about.

I've seen a belief that because IDEA isn't permissively licensed it has ideological impurity and shouldn't be used. Perhaps people take that to the point of zealotry.

There are always #those# people surely.

It doesn't need to. It's enough to be open source.

The community version of IDEA is open source and Apache licensed, so hopefully people aren't seriously using that as an argument.

Everyone uses Eclipse/SpringTool Suite(STS) for spring/grails application development or for projects using gradle as a build tool.

One of the main features of this release (version 12) is the upgrade of the Spring integration, so maybe IntelliJ will become useful to the Spring Java crowd.

Note that the community version of IntelliJ doesn't have this Spring support (nor the javascript IDE capabilities).

Eclipse is simply better for many use cases.

But thank you for your condescension.