depends on what you do in eclipse.

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html

one thing i've learned over the years is the value of opportunity cost. i remember the days when i wouldn't spend 40$ on a chess book, 3$ on a phone app, or 100$ on a SSD. but once you look at how much time you spend on it, the up-front cost becomes negligible. especially for a company. the 500$ price tag might seem a bit steep to your employer at first, but when you consider that the company is paying you 50$+/hr, the cost of the software is worth <10 hours of labour. if that software saves you 5 minute a day, 240 days a year, year after year, then it pays for itself and makes the employees happy.

I'm not a professional programmer, still learning but how's intelliJ for refactoring/autocomplete/project management/linux support? Seems to be a little more reactive than eclipse also

i use eclipse since the rest of the team uses it, plus the integration for titanium appcelerator and native android. personally, i've always had problems with eclipse but i deal with it. i frequently get dependency problems when trying to install plugins, stuff won't always run correctly, some of the settings/colours dont work for unknown reasons, svn always bitches at me if i'm messing with it externally, etc.

idk what you do for project management, but intellij is fine for the others you mentioned. if you're happy with eclipse, just stick with it.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Feb 28 2014 01:26am