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August 16, 2008
IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks!
IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week.
IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated. Some stuff was added in without enough thought. The facets feature, which I was unable to turn off irritated me so much I logged a bug about it. It sort of felt like the philosophy of Idea had been abandoned.
When you start 8 it asks you what features you want. You are warned that they come at a cost. There are more features than 7. You can always turn them on later, presumably by adding the plugin. The first example is RCSs. I just added svn, as that is all I am using these days. You then go through a series of screens
So, I added what I need and voila! - all of the 7 sluggishness has gone.
I have now changed to 8 full time.
Posted by gluck at August 16, 2008 08:48 PM