alt Hacker NewsThere are even areas in which some of those best IntelliJ IDEs.
One such thing that Xcode has that IntelliJ doesn’t is per-pane history. In Xcode hitting back/forward navigates history for your focused editor pane whereas IntelliJ’s navigates history across all editor panes.
This might sound like a minor difference, but Xcode’s way gets me to where I want to go more quickly most of the time because I’m not having to wade through the likely-irrelevant history of the other panes. It’s a frequent frustration whenever I have to use an IntelliJ IDE.
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Seems weird. If it's irrelevant then why were you just there?
Jumping through a stack of functions across classes and back seems like the most common case to me. I'm glad you like it but I would hate that.
Another example, it took several years for JetBrains to add mixed language JNI debugging in IntelliJ, between Java and C, C++. Something that Eclipse and Netbeans were already doing in 2005.