I find IntelliJ to be superior to eclipse, not only in its out of the box 
(for the Ultimate edition--not free) support for GWT, but for almost 
everything else. I was too an eclipse user for many years so I know the 
difference.


On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:13:56 AM UTC-7, Gilberto wrote:
>
> Let's get real for a moment: Eclipse is a plug-in hell.
>
> Have you ever try to run a multi-module App Engine project with multi 
> module GWT app, configured with Maven? Don't even try, go to the command 
> line and run the server from there.
>
> Sometimes you lose days of work just setting up the environment. And that 
> sucks.
>
> But, I still use it. I prefer how Eclipse deal with git and how it's code 
> completion works (ctrl+space for everything, instead of a different 
> shortcut for each type of code completion, like on IntelliJ). It's a matter 
> of knowing what is possible and what is not inside the IDE, and which 
> combination of plug-ins (and its versions) works for your project, and 
> which don't.
>
> I have some friends that love IntelliJ and would never go back to Eclipse 
> again. In my opinion, if you aren't crazy yet because of the plug-in hell, 
> Eclipse can still do a good job. Like Ed said, it's the best free IDE 
> available.
>

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