

In this article, we’ll be walking you through one of the most commonly used IDEs, Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and outlining how Codiga’s Coding Assistant tool can help you get the most out of this IDE to maximize your productivity. While all IDEs have essentially the same purpose, each contain their own set of tools and specific shortcuts that you should consider before making your choice. IntelliJ is one of the most useful and popular Integrated Development Environments for Java.


Developed by Jetbrains, this IDE is packed full of useful features that support fast code development and help to monitor and improve the quality of your code. IntelliJ offers a seamless experience and can help you with a lot of your repetitive tasks debugging, auto code completion, static code analysis, and refactorings, to name a few. IntelliJ Community VS Ultimate Understanding the differences While IntelliJ was mainly designed to be used for Java, it also supports many other programming languages like Kotlin, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, depending on which product offering you go with. The Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE has 2 offerings available for you to choose from Community and Ultimate. Basically, IntelliJ Community is the free, open-source edition. While this is no doubt an excellent tool, you should note that the main drawback here is that it only supports a few programming languages like Java, HTML, Kotlin and does not support many other languages such as Javascript, CSS, PHP, and Go.Īdditionally, the Community edition provides only three frameworks, Android, JavaFX, and Swing. You should also know that it offers limited deployment and build tools, compared to the Ultimate edition.
