Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Przemysław Wojnowski <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:18:17 +0200
> 
> For (project-oriented/enterprise) Java the features are:
> 1. Project support
> IDE has to know the boundaries of a project - where are sources, tests, libs, 
> resources/assets (additional files used in an app in runtime), docs - and 
> what 
> are relations between them. Also it has to know how to work with project's 
> build 
> tool (be it Maven, Gradle, etc.).
> A programmer joining a project (99% of cases) should be able to open/import 
> it 
> and start work. Every Java IDE have that.
> 
> 2. Code completion
>  From whole project, used libraries, and resources
> 
> 3. Jumping around the project code and resources.
> Jumping to around the project code and used libraries. Another thing is 
> jumping 
> to/from resources (for example aspects can be defined in an XML file and IDE 
> could allow to jump to matching classes).
> 
> 4. Finding usages of fields, methods, types.
> Helps to wrap head around project.
> 
> 5. Automatic compilation and showing compilation erros/warnings.
> Tightens development feedback loop.
> 
> 6. Running the tests (current, selected, all)
> Tighten development feedback loop.
> 
> 7. Debugging
> A must, especially for legacy code, so, basically 99% of projects. :-)
> 
> 8. Running the app
> 
> 9. Basic refactoring.
> I do refactor _a lot_ and in my experience the most important refactoring is 
> Extract Method. Others, while helpful, are less often used, compared to the 
> EM.
> One variation of Extract Method is "EM with finding duplicates", which works 
> like this:
> - ask user for a method name,
> - find all occurrences of selected code in the buffer
> - ask user if she wants to replace all occurrences with the call to the new 
> method.
> This is fantastic feature that Intellij has and helps to remove a lot of 
> duplicated code.
> 
> 10. Showing documentation (tooltip, etc.)

I think you forgot profiling.