Trying Out IntelliJ

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I mainly develop in Ruby, but I use other languages from time to time, especially for fun side projects. I've been trying out RubyMine, as I have a free license for it, and I like it well enough. When I started a Java project recently, I downloaded RubyMine's big brother, IntelliJ.

This thing is stupid nice. I will lose all my cool points as a Rubyist using a giant Java IDE to write Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but I don't care. I am in love.

I am not in love with the $250 I am going to have to pay for IntelliJ in about 10 more days. Still trying to figure out how to swing that. Donations accepted.

Published: 19 Feb 2010