[adrianlmm]

I don't recoment Kotling becuase despite being Open Source it requires a proprietary closed source IDE to use it, they have plugin for Eclipse but it will be always a second class citizen and the free version (IDEA) cannot comapre to Eclipse. To me is just a trojan horse that is heavily marketed by Jetbrains, even for Android apps I'd recoment Dart with Flutter over it.

[vbezhenar]

Idea Community Edition is free and open source. It supports Kotlin with the same plugin. Whether it's comparable to Eclipse is debatable. I like Idea much more.

[adrianlmm]

Objectively, Eclipse is milles ahead and more complete than IDEA, it is a toy compared to Eclipse

[eklavya]

Having used both I can't imagine what you are talking about. Which features in Eclipse is Idea missing?

[adrianlmm]

First of all, I'm talking about the free version of IntelliJ (IDEA), you cannot use it to create Java EE applications and the HTML and JavaScript editors are pretty basic as everything else.

[pjmlp]

- Incremental compilation on save

- Not spinning the hard disk all the time indexing libraries

- Showing Javadoc by default without extra configuration steps

[pirocks]

AFAIK intellij/idea is open source:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin

[adrianlmm]

>and the free version (IDEA) cannot comapre to Eclipse.

I already adressed it in my original comment, is not good enougth.