> Many of my colleagues try them out for an hour or two and then jump ship back to VSCode just because the initial "wtf is going on" factor is so high =/
Really?
I mean, the UIs are basically the same now. I have them open side by side on my desktop right now and they're both:
- black boxes with a panel on the left of icons, then a tree of files, then a tabbed pane of open files.
- clicking on the icons on the left opens some obscure subwindow depending on you magically knowing what the icon means.
The only meaningful difference is that in vscode there's a command palette at the top where you can type in random stuff and get a list of actions, and in intellij you have to 'know' that the shortcut for that is 'press shift 3 times' instead of 'shift control p'
...but I mean, thats it; they're otherwise pretty much identical, practically.
Honestly, anyone who opens intellij and then goes back to vscode because its too different is a numpty.
Things work differently, and people don't like different things, and if they go back because it was different or the shortcuts are different, that's fair. It is disruptive.
...but, because the 'wtf is going on' factor is too high? Realllllllly? What does that even mean?
Come on. They're not that different. If clicking on 'run' on the top right instead of on the left bar is too 'wtf', you really haven't made a real effort to try using the other IDE.
(The same goes for old school intellij users who try vscode and then run away. Give it a decent shot before you walk away because it's too hard if the only hard thing is your keyboard shortcut muscle memory... vscode is pretty great)
You only really see the deep differences when you use them extensively for things like refactoring and debugging.