The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was originally launched in January 2001, and now IntelliJ IDEA has reached a new milestone achievement-its 20th anniversary!
In the era when there were no smartphones and social media, and even Java virtual machines were not open source, IntelliJ IDEA was one of the few Java IDEs on the market that integrated advanced code navigation and code refactoring. The birth of IntelliJ IDEA has left a strong mark in the history and development of Java.
IntelliJ IDEA is a commercially available Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool software developed by JetBrains Software Company (formerly known as IntelliJ). It provides a community version that follows the Apache License 2.0 and a commercial version under patented software. Both versions under the license can be used for commercial development.
In the InfoWorld report in 2010, they compared Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper, which were the mainstream Java integrated development environments on the market at the time, and IntelliJ received the highest score in the media test.
In December 2014, Google announced the first version of its open source IDE dedicated to the development of Android application software-Android Studio 1.0, which was developed based on the IntelliJ IDEA open source community version to replace Eclipse, which was originally provided for Android developers. ADT. In addition to downloading Android Studio directly, the original IntelliJ users can also download related plug-ins to develop programs.
The integrated environments developed by IntelliJ for individual programming languages, such as AppCode, CLion, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, and MPS, can all be used by loading IntelliJ IDEA as a plug-in.
Twenty years ago, IntelliJ IDEA was born out of the idea of making development more efficient and getting a better development experience. Today, IntelliJ IDEA is used by more than 4 million users all over the world, and IntelliJ IDEA is used by users in every continent-even including Antarctica according to official statistics.
Officials said that in the past few years they have continuously introduced new features and improved existing features to ensure that they can always meet the needs of users. And in the next 20 years or even longer, they will launch more innovative content.
To celebrate this milestone, the official IntelliJ IDEA Conf online conference will be held from February 25 to 26, 2021. This online conference will reveal the internal details of the product and share some IDE insights in order to better improve users’ daily lives. productive forces. Interested users can visit the official website to view the full agenda and register.