I would pay more if I need to, Intellij is not expensive if you are doing professional Java Programming.
Yes there are a lot of free Eclipse based IDEs for anything you can program, but you update a plugin the next thing the IDE stop working, its just a nightmare.
VSCode is nice, but is not an IDE, its a very powerfull text editor with a tons of well made plugins.
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I would pay more if I need to, Intellij is not expensive if you are doing professional Java Programming.
Yes there are a lot of free Eclipse based IDEs for anything you can program, but you update a plugin the next thing the IDE stop working, its just a nightmare.
VSCode is nice, but is not an IDE, its a very powerfull text editor with a tons of well made plugins.