The TL;DR is that after paying for IntelliJ for 12 months, you get permanent access to a 12 month old version. Updates are not included, unless you keep paying the subscription.
Is there any benefit in buying all product stack license over Intellij IDEA ultimate? As you can anyway add plugins to IDEA ultimate and use different languages.
My usual advice is that if you are very familiar with IDEs and have used them in the past than using IntelliJ with plugins might be okay. Otherwise use the individual products.
IntelliJ can do almost everything the other IDEs can do, but since the others target one programming environment or language they tend to be easier to use for that environment.
If you're happy with a single IDE then it's fine. However, please note that IntelliJ IDEA does not include CLion, AppCode and of course none of the .NET tools.
I have a pycharm license, eventually got a rubymine license when I started working on ruby as well. Lately, I've been using Sublime because it's been annoying me having to spin up a completely different IDE to get some code in another language done. I regret not just paying the $199 for IntelliJ. FWIW; I'm an infrastructure engineer and deal with a pretty wide variety of languages, my daily use case could likely be less common for most developers.
I'd happily pay $10-20/mo or something for full blown Intellij. Not sure why they haven't changed their model.
The plugins for IntelliJ usually wind up a few weeks to months behind, so that's another big reason that I bought the individual language apps.
The following answer[1] was 2012 but I think it's still applicable. Basically, the plugins to IDEA are always a few months behind the dedicated products (Webstorm, Pycharm, Rubymine, etc). If you always want the bleeding edge latest & greatest, the plugins may not meet your needs.
While you can do most things in IntelliJ, they are often a step or two removed. It is often much nicer to just use the language specific IDE except for times when you need to be going cross-language in a project.
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate doesn't include App Code or any of the C-family language products and unlike Ruby and Python there aren't plug-ins available for that either.
A little off topic: even though my IntelliJ license is paid up for another month, I just signed up for the complete toolbox. Seems like a really good deal and I am happy enough with the revised license.
I am a polyglot programmer so also having the professional versions of RubyMine, PyCharm, and WebStorm is great. (BTW, IntelliJ is also my dev environment for Clojure and Haskell)
For many years JetBrains gave me complementary licenses (because of all the Java books I have written) but for the last few years I have happily paid them. I basically 'live' in IntelliJ.
I often end up marking node_modules as "excluded", which sucks a bit for autocomplete/intellisense style code insights, but really speeds things up. Switching branches seems to be the primary thing that grinds it to a halt.
Also, as other people have mentioned, "exclude" files from being watched by the editor. I do a lot of NLP and machine learning work and I often have very large text training files in my working repos - important to tell the editor to not to watch these files.
I use the Haskell plugin from Jetbrains - it is the one with the most downloads. Then open a project that uses stack, create an execution target. Under the "Before launch:" area, add an external tools target: stack build --exec <project name>
That lets me run from the IDE. Syntax hiliting and formatting works well.
I've been using IntelliJ IDEA since 2002. I used to get excited every time IntelliJ IDEA released a new version. But in recent years I find the improvements in a new version are marginal. I guess that is a sign of it being a rich and complete product. I no longer upgrade and find myself saying "wow, that's a great improvement" for a few weeks.
I think the changes get subtler. I also have been using it since 2002; it's really good to re-view what you can do as it's so easy to miss the plethora of subtle new features.
Agreed. Every once in a while I use a slightly older version and quickly ask myself how I ever was able to get by. I use Scala as my daily language though so that's a spot where their support might be improving at a more rapid pace.
I'm in a similar boat with using IntelliJ super early on, and while I agree that the changes don't seem as huge as they were in the early days (mainly because, as you noted, it's now a fairly rich and complete product), they still are providing some cool features. For instance, in IntelliJ 14.1, they added a Java decompiler with debugging capabilities, so you can now ctrl+click into compiled code and set breakpoints. (http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/02/debug-decompiled-code...) .. that's been pretty cool for my workflow, at least.
If it helps any, in most jurisdictions in the US the end user is likely responsible for paying "use tax." If they don't, the purchase is only tax free in the sense that all tax evasion is.
Interesting! Any thoughts on Kotlin? Normally I'm deeply skeptical of new languages, but the IntelliJ people have been making good tools for so many years that they're one of the few groups I'd trust to do something solid.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 124 ms ] threadIntelliJ can do almost everything the other IDEs can do, but since the others target one programming environment or language they tend to be easier to use for that environment.
I'd happily pay $10-20/mo or something for full blown Intellij. Not sure why they haven't changed their model.
The plugins for IntelliJ usually wind up a few weeks to months behind, so that's another big reason that I bought the individual language apps.
http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbra...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13827214/can-intellij-ide...
A little off topic: even though my IntelliJ license is paid up for another month, I just signed up for the complete toolbox. Seems like a really good deal and I am happy enough with the revised license.
I am a polyglot programmer so also having the professional versions of RubyMine, PyCharm, and WebStorm is great. (BTW, IntelliJ is also my dev environment for Clojure and Haskell)
For many years JetBrains gave me complementary licenses (because of all the Java books I have written) but for the last few years I have happily paid them. I basically 'live' in IntelliJ.
Do you have any tips on optimizing performance for your dev environment? It's a shame using webstorm in power save mode.
Also exclude node_modules, logs.
Also, as other people have mentioned, "exclude" files from being watched by the editor. I do a lot of NLP and machine learning work and I often have very large text training files in my working repos - important to tell the editor to not to watch these files.
That lets me run from the IDE. Syntax hiliting and formatting works well.
Did you notice if the "Next billing on " date on your JetBrains account page was wrong?
https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
Has anyone found a way to do this in IntelliJ?
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7086?pr=
Here's a cool video of tips and tricks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVWdGOnHZU
Why do UK users have to pay 50% more than US users for the same subscription?
In which subscription?