April 10, 2006
Intelli/J IDEA Light
My favourite Java IDE is JetBrain’s Intelli/J IDEA. But these days I wonder about it’s future. Not because of Eclipse. Eclipse – for me – is a different approach to an IDE and I simply don’t like it. But that’s not the point. The point is that IDEA is getting more and more bloated. Probably not only because of features, but also because of the included JDK/JRE. Not sure on this..
Anyway, I simply don’t need about 50% of the functionality. IDEA has become a monster like Word. And I think this sucks.
I want an IDEA Light. Possibly without an embedded JDK/JRE. As a compiled executable or something like that. And less than 10 MB total size. The core editor and a Plugin API. Obviously with some serious limitations compared to the bloatware IDEA. No UI designer, no J2ME support, no J2EE support, nothing like that. Java editing with Java project-file management and the strong and beloved refactoring support. That’s probably all we need in a neat package.
Kind of like a tight JEdit with the known cool Intelli/J UI.
Well.. Just a thought..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 7:52 pm under Development,Java,Rant
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