[kaba0]

> The things I mentioned (local symbol auto-complete, reference-chasing, global go-to-symbol) are things that modern code editors do by default for any programming language they can syntax-highlight

They can suggest some code, but they are like a dumb autocomplete. Your next sentence about understanding the project itself is the whole point - intellij can give me suggestions for my backend’s endpoints when I write the frontend, and clicking on such a href will jump to the controller.

It’s a pretty magical experience and I would even go as far that I would dare claim I’m writing Java code faster thanks to such a superior IDE than I would write some less verbose other PL.