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I don't know the precise answer to the original question. But with regards to AppCode it's pretty much a standalone product that has features IntelliJ doesn't.

IntelliJ incorporates everything found in all the other IDEs like RubyMine and PyCharm but doesn't include the additional stuff found in AppCode.

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I've heard that the reason for this is the XCode project format. The purpose of AppCode is to be a better IDE for iOS/OSX development. But if the future version targets cross platform development, not meaning cross platform on the host side, but cross platform on the compiler target side; it would probably mean that the project format support should support Makefiles and other build systems; and hopefully that would be integrated in IntelliJ.

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