intellij

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “escape gets captured in IntelliJ's terminal which kind of stinks”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “I've barely touched Intellij for the last half year or so. I rarely edit code manually at this point. I also did not renew my subscription and am back on the community edition.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “only find myself touching things like IntelliJ when I really need to dig into something with a debugger”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “the swapping induced by IntelliJ overflowing my system RAM is supposed to reduce the inefficiencies of using too little memory”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “I think I get this sometimes even if rerere is enabled, I am doing rebase using Intellij though, so maybe rerere doesn't get used here somehow”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “For the twilight years of my IntelliJ/CLipn usage, the first thing I'd do upon installation would be to go remove all the damn plugins.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-19

• “I had some recurring issues with the full IntelliJ when opening multiple instances at the same time”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “the feedback loop in IntelliJ or Visual Studio is just much quicker than the alternatives because you can run and debug the specific tests you need”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “key bindings in IntelliJ that might make sense on Windows or Macintosh, but conflict with Linux defaults”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-15

• “heavily relying on IntelliJ features to understand new codebases (jump to definition, find all usages of a function, navigate from SQL to the table in database tab etc.)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-15

• “IntelliJ never worked very well in google3, and certainly didn't have anywhere near the level of fluidity and speed that Eclipse had”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-14

• “I found it easier to enter a debug session within Intellij then 'vibe' and explore the internal apis via superComplicatedObject.ini<tab>”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “This made it possible, even preferred, to use IntelliJ, which is what I did. Magicjar was great.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “in a good IDE (IntelliJ has good support) you can run the acceptance criteria to ensure they pass, navigate from any specific acceptance criteria to the code which tests it (and from there to the code that implements it), you can generate reports, integrate it into CI and so on. And when writing out acceptance tests that are quite similar, the IDE will help you with features like auto-complete”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-03

• “the IntelliJ debugger with the OpenJDK is enough for me. I know what works and what doesn't so I rarely feel frustrated.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-30

• “IntelliJ's AI Chat pointed at local Ollama models never have issues finding files or reading files and terminal output”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “You can do that in IntelliJ in about 15 seconds and no tokens...”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-21

• “I won't be renewing my Intellij license. I haven't touched it in weeks. It doesn't do anything I need anymore.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-08

• “IntelliJ with Java is one of the best dev experiences I've ever had”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-02

• “I was able to run Intellij IDEA, but of course ymmv as the application really has to be available for Android arm64”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-14

• “breath of fresh air. It's the closest I've come to that old school "in the box" desktop development experience you used to get from building desktop software with Visual Studio or IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans or Eclipse”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “intellij indexing takes >1 min and hogs my memory during that period”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “IntelliJ's Git frontend makes the Git command line look like a relic”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-25

• “IntelliJ has a task runner built-in that can do all of this very easily, in a way that I can share it with the rest of my team, and don't have to bother with remembering specific commands.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-04

• “The Copilot IntelliJ integration on the other hand is atrocious”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-02