Why not just use IDEA ultimate and install different plugins per language?

toyg · on Sept 4, 2015

I tried, it's not the same. The dedicated tools are better.

noarchy · on Sept 4, 2015

Not to mention, I see less incentive now for Jetbrains to make the IntelliJ plugins on par with the standalone, language-specific IDEs.

joesmo · on Sept 4, 2015

Also, it doesn't support all the plugins for each language, only some languages.

estefan · on Sept 4, 2015

@toyg (not sure why I can't reply to you so I'll reply to me instead) - really? I've never tried them. I thought Intellij was the same with the appropriate language plugin. Maybe I'll give some of them a go...

fenomas · on Sept 4, 2015

(aside: HN blocks replying to your replyer for a short while to discourage heated exchanges. If you wait a bit the reply button will show up.)

hinkley · on Sept 4, 2015

I dunno what it's like now, but there was a time when, among other things, IntelliJ could not open a project created in rubymine. They were providing ruby support as a plugin and it was considerably broken, for about six months.