[gshx]

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

[PaulHoule]

I worked with Eclipse for a few years and found it was a constant source of stress, refusing to stay synchronized with maven, crashing, having to restart it, etc.

[stillworks]

TL;DR +1 for IntelliJ

I was hating maven, until I started using IntelliJ. I don't remember ever Eclipse going to zero error count on a maven project whereas the project would just compile if maven was used outside of Eclipse.

IntelliJ just works. FTW it has Eclipse key-mappings as well.

[quantumhobbit]

"A UI error has occurred trying to display a UI error" or something equally unhelpful.

When eclipse gave me that error message I immediately wrote it off as useful software.

Also it is dog slow compared to intellij

[turnip1979]

When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart???

The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally complex and bloated.

[HillaryBriss]

Android Studio, based closely on IntelliJ, has this menu item on the OSX version:

File | Invalidate Caches / Restart ...

[AnimalMuppet]

IntelliJ lets you do a lot more from the keyboard. It's suggestions for code completion are very useful. It's amazing to see the code almost writing itself, several times faster than you can type!

[JiNCMG]

It even has a plugin that will tell you the key commands for any feature you use more than 3 times.

[vmasto]

Oh! Link please?

[mkoryak]

i think its called 'key promoter'

[reitanqild]

I had some issues when I used eclipse, especially back in 2009 when I was forced to use perforce.