The last time I frequented these newsgroups, the word on the street is
that IDEA 3.0 (backported to OSX) would be available in the September
timeline.
Now, I just looked back over the most recent postings, and there is no
mention of any kind of slowdown in new development, or a release date,
or when the OSX backporting will commence. Annoying, but understandable.
So I regularly try out the latest eap build (650 at time of writing)
just to see some of the supposed cool features I'm missing out on. Also
I have kind of an expectation that as builds progress, IDEA improves and
becomes more stable and usable. I have to say, currently using 629 on my
OSX laptop is the most comfortable IDEA environment, every single
successive EAP has been more annoying to use in some respect. A brief
list of issues (some of which have been fixed, but since my chosen
platform OSX isn't supported I haven't bothered report them)
1 - Auto entering of quotes: This can't be disabled, and makes life
hell. Typing a quote by mistake (' is right next to ; on a US/UK
keyboard) makes one want to hurl the keyboard at the nearest monitor and
be done with. I don't understand the timesaving aspects of this at all.
2 - Editing large files gets slower in every build. I have an EJB
session bean that is rather large, and with build 650, I sometimes have
to wait a second for every keypress. Not a lot of fun. Used to be a lot
faster in 629.
3 - Still the usual array of internal errors. On one machine copying any
text from any app causes IDEA to burp up an internal error.
4 - On the plus side. We now have transparent windows and cool fading
tool windows. Vital for any serious java developer.
5 - After building with ant, the ant toolbar window always pops up. Also
not very enjoyable or needed.
6 - Various random hangs (better with 650, but still not as reliable as
<630)
I realise I'm being unfair and not mentioning some of the great new
features (some, because many of the so called 'great new features' are
very far from great). I do appreciate encoding aware editing, improved
(when it works) jsp support, nicer options pages, per project code
styles, and more intelligent ant file handling.
I apologise for my tone, but it's very frustrating seeing a great IDE
become so bogged down and annoying to use. Yes, I (and probably many
other) IDEA users have set a very high bar. Many of you can say 'but
it's still so much better than everything else', which I would
wholeheartedly agree with. That isn't the point, I'm unhappy because
I've seen what the IDEA guys can do, and frankly, the current builds
don't do them justice, and seem dissapointing compared to the great
things we've been spoilt with and (sadly) gotten used to.
Hani
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