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I'm happy with IntelliJ (>9 years of ~daily use), but if there are long-term users of Eclipse here who are familiar with both and prefer it to IntelliJ, I'd be interested to hear why.

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I now use IntelliJ (CE) but:

- Eclipse type hierarchy view (and quick view) was nice

- Google-Java-Format plugin integration was better

- The default color scheme of Eclipse was better (not sure why but I can't use a dark theme with Java)

But Eclipse had too much strange behaviors where I had to restart it and IntelliJ has those warnings/suggestion about code quality and better auto-completion IMO.

Yes! The type hierarchy view was great, forgotten about that.

I'd also be interested to hear this. I used to love Eclipse, but really didn't like the workspaces concept and endless wrangling with plugins that frequently broke something on minor updates.

I moved to intellij because the simple things I needed just worked out of the box, and I mostly find it great.

But I'd still like to hear from someone with a different take on it .

I haven't had to bother with workspace stuff in years because of Gradle. I know that not everyone uses Gradle, but it gives you an equivalent of `cargo init` or `npm init` to initialize an Eclipse or Intellij project in any filesystem location.

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