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For years I’ve heard the IntelliJ fanclub speak of how great this IDE is, all the while I’ve been quite happy using Eclipse. Besides, I couldn’t see spending $250 or so for an IDE that I can get for free. Well, a couple days ago we started on our site rewrite and we are going to use Java to replace the Perl codebase. Most of the current Java developers are quite familiar with Eclipse but the existing Perl guys weren’t warming up to it too much. Anyway one of the guys is an avid IntelliJ fan so we started discussing the pros and cons of each. Everything that was a ‘pro’ for IDEA was a pro back when Eclipse wasn’t all that great. Things like the diff tool, refactoring, customization and a few others. However we didn’t get into the discussion as a religious debate and we, including me, decided to give it a shot for month to see if it was really worth while.