Thanks to Jet Brains
Thanks to Jet Brains for the free open source license for IntelliJ for work on Lucene. If your a Java developer and haven’t used IntelliJ, you don’t know what you are missing. It takes the tedium out of the tedious parts of coding and makes the hard part of coding easier.


What did you use before, Grant?
What haven’t I tried? Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder, XEmacs, XCode (OS X), TextMate…
Digging into the archive: Visual Studio, Visual J++, vi, emacs
Visual Studio was nice in the day and I suspect Visual Studio .Net is pretty good, although I don’t do much development in that world anymore.
Eclipse and NetBeans have some pretty cool features. I haven’t checked them out in over a year, so maybe they are worth a look again.
How about you, Otis, what do you use?
I use Eclipse now. I’ve been using it for 1-2 years now. I used XEmacs before that, and plain emacs before that. In 1997/1998 I remember I used Symantec Visual Cafe, but that was mostly for some AWT apps I was building visually.
I like Eclipse. So you like IntelliJ better? You wanna take it outside?