Is Intellij IDEA Ultimate is worth the price?

Is Intellij IDEA Ultimate is worth the price?

1. Depends on your needs. Consider how much you can make in an hour using it, and how many hours you need to work to pay for it. Everyone’s situation is different, but for me it was a no brainier. For some people, IDEA allows them to be more productive than they are in other tools, but that may not be true for others. For instance, some people prefer other tools like VS Code over IDEA.

   As long as you are the one paying, you can use your personal license for commerical work, which is really nice:

   https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207241015-Can-I-use-my-personal-license-for-commercial-development-

   

   See https://www.jetbrains.com/store/comparison.html#LicenseComparison

2. Db client, JavaScript support, and, in general, embedded languages support are my primary reasons.

3. It’s pennies compared to what you can make. Well worth the money. I couldn’t do what I do without it. For private use, it depends on how much money you are making and consider if you can afford it, if yes it definitely will pay off. Definitely worth the money. I’d say my productivity has at least tripled since I moved to IDEA ultimate.

4. Ultimate includes support for large number of frameworks. You can find the feature matrix on jetbrains website.

5. Especially if you’re a professional or hoping to make a career out of programming. I used to think IDEs were bloated and for noobs but when I actually put some time into becoming comfortable with them as part of my workflow my productivity increased dramatically.

   I end up paying for the full license for everything — IntelliJ can do everything but it’s nice to have Goland and PyCharm available just because the interface is more streamlined. They aren’t necessary though. You can get by with just IntelliJ but you’ll have to wade through a ton of Java-specific stuff when trying to work on other languages.

6. As a professional, is it worth it? Depends what you use it for still. If you use any of the technologies that integrate well with the framework support, it’s worth it’s weight in gold.

   As a beginner? No, the community edition has 99% of the stuff you would want. As a beginner, is it worth paying for their premium-only IDE’s for other programming languages not Java? That’s a tougher question to answer. Considering that VSCode is so so just everywhere at the moment.

   That said, the amount of time spent finangling with VSCode to get all the plugins to work nicely makes me want to pull my hair out at times, but as a beginner I could justify that, as it helped me to understand how stuff worked under the hood.

   As a professional, I just want my tools to work reliably, out of the box, THEN let me customize it.

   Ask this same question in r/VScode , r/vim , r/emacs and see the bias here in action.

   As a minecraft modder, is it worth it?

   Only if you are chasing performance issues, and are trying to track memory leaks etc.

   Otherwise 99% of the features that are ultimate only are not important to you.