IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released

Re:IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released by kibibyte on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:44PM (#4878768)

I had issues with updating Eclipse itself. The last time I used Eclipse was when I updated the main IDE itself. The update somehow broke my plugins (including Google's ADT) so badly that I had to remove Eclipse and reinstall it and the plugins from scratch. I decided to move on to IntelliJ after that, and I have not had any update issues since then.

This was back in the Eclipse 3.5-3.7 days, but with 4.x already out, it's possible that this issue has already been fixed.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released by MBCook on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:39PM (#4880160)

I've been out of the Eclipse world for about two years but that was always something that confused me. With Eclipse it was also so hard to find the right version to download. You couldn't download Eclipse, you downloaded the Something pack or the Other Thing pack.

Then there were plugins you might want but they were only distributed as Eclipse installs so you either had to install that version or download it and steal the plugins you wanted out of the directories after you unzipped it.

Once you got it running it wasn't much of a problem, but it was one of those things that I hated dealing with the few times it was necessary.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released by Roybatty on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @06:39PM (#4879300)

Eclipse has suffered from plugin hell from the beginning, and probably it's biggest failing.

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