“I’ve used a number of IDE’s. My first love was Forte. Then,
someone explained to me that Forte was based on Netbeans. So I
tried Netbeans and I liked it. It was my main IDE for almost two
years. But I was still using Vim periodically because some editing
was easier in Vim than in Netbeans.“Then, one of my colleagues (Michel, it’s all your fault!)
introduced me to IntelliJ IDEA. I was hooked! IntelliJ remains my
favourite IDE, even more than Eclipse. But I don’t have the funds
to pay for a license, so I looked for the next best thing…”
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