Java was thriving during the golden age of Eclipse Foundation and IDE. JetBrains is very much recent.

> JetBrains is very much recent.

JetBrains is 25 years old, almost as old as Java.

szatkus 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

IntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that.

	▲	jen20 a day ago \| parent [-]
		It was in heavy use in London investment banks in 2005. Even resharper was commonplace by the following year.

TheFreim 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Around 10 years ago Eclipse was still the primary editor in the circles I was in.

	▲	pjmlp 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Still is on my circles, and at home I have been always a Netbeans fan. I am an IDE guy since Borland products for MS-DOS, yet I was never sold on InteliJ anyway, and Android Studio made me dislike it even further.

karmakaze 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was using Eclipse back then, but indeed Wikipedia says IDEA 1.0 (Jan 2001) predates Eclipse IDE (Nov 2001).

NetBeans was bought by Sun in 1999 and opensourced on Jun 2000.