DEV Community

Discussion on: IDEA for everything?

Collapse
 
itsasine profile image
ItsASine (Kayla)

I got the Ultimate pack at home through Jetbrains Student and at work because it was barely different buying our team Ultimate vs just IntelliJ.

Since I have access to them all, I use the dedicated app for each function.

  • Java homework in IntelliJ, personal tinkering in Webstorm, data science stuff in PyCharm (with an R plugin).
  • At work, everything in IntelliJ except instead of the database sidebar in IntelliJ, I use DataGrip to connect to MySQL. DataGrip is so much better than the little Database window.

IntelliJ is just way too bloated to spin up every time I want to just toy with some HTML