IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 coming soon
So I get this email from Jetbrains this morning announcing an upcoming release of their flagship IDE. After looking over the new features, I'm starting to question if I will upgrade or not. Considering I do very little JSP work, the "web" features aren't important to me. While adding subversion support is great to see, I don't use subversion and will get zero benefit out of it right now. I realize that could change in the future though. I don't do J2ME programming and I'm not impressed by look and feel changes either. About the only features that stand out are the additional code analysis and inspection updates. Are those worth an upgrade? Is this really a major release?
Re: IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 coming soon
Hi Mike. I'm in a similar boat as you - I actually do enough web development to make 5.0 useful but I am getting charged $299.00 to upgrade. I've been upgrading since my initial exposure @ version 2.4 and it seems like new users are getting it for cheaper with a lot of specials they run. :(
Re: IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 coming soon
I just started learning JME and am looking forward to using IDEA for this. Maybe you could consider doing some personal learning projects with JSP and JME to make the upgrade worth it. Also, Subversion is worth getting to know. $299 is a low enough price, compared to most other dev tools, that I'll pay the price to keep those JetBrains folks happily employed.