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Most of these are easier to do on IDEs or dedicated software. The best git related investment I've done was buying a Fork license. I started using it back when it was free and after it became paid, I chose it instead of GitKraken (which is also amazing) because GitKraken is a subscription.
Meanwhile, the best IDE related investment for me was IntelliJ, which I was so impressed by it that I and a few other devs decided to ask to add it to the department budget. All Devs in the company now have a license paid by the company
I'm curious, would you mind elaborating at all on why IntelliJ beats, say, VSCode?
VS Code is a glorified text editor; it is NOT an IDE. IntelliJ is an IDE and hands-down the best available. It might have some issues here and there, but VSC requires that you go plugin-diving to get any meaningful functionality. It also lacks some "basic" editing commands that IntelliJ has out-of-the-box, like incremental selection.
(I'm not here often, so I probably won't see any replies.)
Yeah, they went the opposite route of "batteries included" - the core functionality is there, then whatever language support or optional features you need are up to you. Microsoft has official extensions for the major stuff.
I’ve been using IntelliJ for quite some time now, as it is also a part of the department budget. I’ve used VS code and atom as well.
I like IntelliJ’s color scheming, integrated DataGrip and automatic code formatting.
I like VS codes merge conflict manager, the search functionality and how lightweight it is.
To me, working in IntelliJ for 3 years, I have to say it is the superior IDE. Though, I have had some consistent issues with IntelliJ crashing and freezing during development of which was so consistent at some point that I had to switch to VS code just to get work done and stay focused.
I only had one catastrophic crash with IntelliJ. An update borked all my saved settings which was painful because I manage over 100 repos, but just deleting the new version settings files was enough to fix it. It was able to auto-reimport everything from the older version on the second try
Code completion and finding code in IntelliJ is superior than VSCode. I've always struggled finding where is, for example, the CSS class defined when I'm in HTML while on VSCode. In IntelliJ ctrl+click works with more things than on VSCode. Refactoring code, renaming stuff, everything works better on IntelliJ. I like the colour coding of code better on IntelliJ too. Database integration is excellent and just simply works. You can run JPQL and native queries directly from the code. It will give you squiggly lines for columns that are not present in tables (as in a typo), etc. It's also so much easier to set up. I can open many projects built in many different tech stacks and it just knows what it should do. Since our projects are very eclectic, for lack of better words, IntelliJ is great for us. It's also possible to debug a web application directly in the IDE just like you would with the backend.
There are a few things I like VSCode more, though. I like how lightweight it is, so if I just need to quickly check out some code I still use VSCode. I like how clean the interface is too, but recently IntelliJ has this kind of interface too.
Makes sense, VSCode is very much not ready to use out of the gate. Switching for each tech stack should be doable with workspaces but I definitely understand not wanting to mess with that. Thanks for answering!
Using bisect is simply THE superpower
Any meaningful IDE would provide these with a click.
Maybe, but I'm going to chuckle if you aren't familiar with a good chunk of these, and I don't think I'm the only one (but I could be).
git add -pNope the two superpowers are interactive rebase and worktrees, worktrees help so much in projects where multiple people are working and you need to switch branches frequently
ok