<story><title>Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/03/enjoying-java-and-being-more-productive-with-intellij-idea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>incepted</author><text>&amp;quot;Friendly&amp;quot; is not the word I would use. Powerful, sure. But IDEA breaks quite a few universal GUI concepts and that takes a bit to get used to.&lt;p&gt;For example, Ctrl-w is a very important keybinding on IDEA, one that I use all the time (it expands the selection to the enclosing expression). It&amp;#x27;s literally wired in my brain now. To the point that I now use it in Eclipse as well and I even started using it in other places (Sublime, etc...) and... closing the window as a result. Very annoying.&lt;p&gt;Another one is that Ctrl-n sometimes creates a new file (expected) and sometimes... something completely different depending on your current window. Again, not friendly. Optimized for development and a life saver on the long run, for sure, but it&amp;#x27;s fairly user hostile.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/03/enjoying-java-and-being-more-productive-with-intellij-idea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgt</author><text>Agreed. Switched to IntelliJ about 4-5 months ago. Haven&amp;#x27;t looked back since. Interestingly, what caused me to look at IntelliJ wasn&amp;#x27;t a lack of features in NetBeans, but rather the fact that still today NetBeans doesn&amp;#x27;t work properly on a retina MacBook Pro.&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; To elaborate, on a MBP Retina, you&amp;#x27;ll find that the UI lags slightly if typing fast, especially if a lot of syntax highlighting is happening on the screen. It does not happen if you are using NetBeans on an external monitor.  The NetBeans team claims it&amp;#x27;s a Java issue, so in the end I just didn&amp;#x27;t want to wait anymore, and I downloaded IntelliJ.</text></comment>