Jetbrains have announced IntelliJ community edition and open source version of their excellent IDE. I have long been an IntelliJ fan, but have had trouble justifying the cost when compared to Eclipse.
The open source version of IntelliJ appears to have all the key features I use day to day (a few of the toys are missing, but I can live without them). It has the excellent code, xml and HTML editors (though some of the smart feature in XML/HTML are not available). It runs fast and works well with Maven projects. The only major gaps are lack of Javascript and CSS editors - I suppose they had to leave something out in order to persuade us to buy the pro version!
A number of people have been writing about if this release is a good/bad thing for both Jetbrains and everybody else. At the moment this is a really good thing for IntelliJ fans however these is a risk open sourcing it will result it becoming the plugin driven mess that is Eclipse. Eclipse has now got so bloated it is getting harder and harder to use. However I suspect IntelliJ will stay focussed and will remain (probably) the best IDE out there.
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