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by VeilEm 3816 days ago
Sorry hari, I love intellij and the work you do there, but I do not believe you. Please show me an IntelliJ IDEA that looks and behaves exactly like webstorm and pycharm just with plugins. You can't. For example Pycharm doesn't even have a project settings option. What plugin gives you that?
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hhariri 3816 days ago
Are you asking if IntelliJ IDEA can look like PyCharm? If that's the case, no, it can't. Each IDE is somewhat tailored to the specifics of the framework/language/platform as I mentioned, but the functionality that they provide is available as plugins. For instance with WebStorm you can have node.js, angular.js plugins installed in IntelliJ IDEA and get the same features.

Obviously, IntelliJ IDEA is a polyglot environment so certain things cater to the needs of many platforms and languages, which is why there are some differences in UI, but AFAIK, the core functionality is there.

Having said that, we fully understand that users want to have smaller more focused IDE's based on the specific needs, which is one of the main reasons we started offer the All Products option.

But I do want to stress that the functionality of the different IDE's are via plugins, and that these plugins are available for IntelliJ IDEA, the same day the IDE's are released.

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VeilEm 3815 days ago
Sure, and the UI differences become a big problem though when you want to set something up and cannot find the available documentation for intellij IDEA. The instructions will only be for Pycharm and making the translation of where to find the resource in Pycharm to how to find it in IntelliJ via the plugin can be considerably challening. In addition the special editors also seem to have sane default options added in places. I don't have a specific example, but I remember having trouble setting up a django project in intellij, giving up and buying Pycharm and doing it that way.

I'm very happy for the universal license, thank you so much for adding it. I love the special editors like WebStorm and PyCharm, and I use IntelliJ IDEA as well. I use them all, regularly.

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