Eclipse IDE vs IntelliJ IDEA: Which is best for you?

I’ve appreciated the flexibility of plugins and the ability to customize the workspace depending on the task or prototype I was working on.

The only downsides I've found are its heavy resource usage (an editor like Notepad++ is much lighter) and a somewhat outdated user interface.

The debugger is also very good, its interface tools make it easy to track variables and analyze stack traces, helping a lot in more complex projects .

the AI assistant is nice when it works, but it often doesnt, and your code snippets/project files are aggressively truncated behind the scenes making the tool much less useful for anything other than very narrow prompts lacking context