---
title: "IntelliJ IDEA keeps getting better"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/7/intellij-idea-keeps-getting-better.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/7/intellij-idea-keeps-getting-better.html"
published: "2004-11-07T11:36:00"
updated: "2004-11-07T11:36:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "While VS.Net 2005 tries to keep up, IntelliJ IDEA (for Java) continues to improve itself with loads of very cool, very powerful stuff , and be (in my mind) the best IDE on the market today for productivity coding (sadly…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# IntelliJ IDEA keeps getting better

By Roy Osherove November 7, 2004 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

While VS.Net 2005 tries to keep up, [IntelliJ IDEA](http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) (for Java) continues to improve itself with [loads of very cool, very powerful stuff](http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/refactoring.html), and be (in my mind) the best IDE on the market today for productivity coding (sadly it does not support C#/VB.Net...yet?).

Now they just need to keep up [Resharper](http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper) with the new features and its a win-win situation.

P.S

It keeps me smiling to watch JetBrains' (makers of said products) site filled with [lots of little typos and errors](http://support.jetbrains.com/kb/category.jspa?categoryID=28), and a total lack of real "What's new" documentation on Resharper. Is it just me or does it seem like their letting their (most talented) developers also update the online site?

yeah - this is a .Net blog - but you've gotta give props to the competition, right? They totally deserve it.

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