A comment to a previous developer blog post asked: “What is best IDEA or Eclipse? I’m thinking now what i will use 😉 but i can’t make my choose(sic) ;-(” Matt’s response to that comment was appropriately diplomatic, but a recent exchange in Atlassian’s internal blogs might shed some more light on the issue.
It started innocently enough with a piece of friendly advice from Cenquan-Atlassian, Brendan:
If you’ve ever noticed IntelliJ IDEA 6.x/7.x not keeping sync with the file system on OSX, even when the “refresh” button is pressed, there is a workaround: disable the bundled native fslogger. This native monitoring app reportedly uses a nonstandard mechanism to monitor file system changes, which may or may not be why it seems not to notice when I update files/directories external to IDEA.
removing fslogger:
- shutdown IDEA
- cd /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.1.app/bin/
- mv fslogger fslogger.DISABLED
- restart IDEA
I’ve been running without fslogger for a solid 5 minutes without problems. YMMV.
It didn’t take long, however, for the first comment from Atlassian’s small but vocal Eclipse contingent, represented by JIRA developer Brad:
Or there is this other workaround
Brendan’s response was a little… vehement:
…must …resist… obvious… …troll.. eh, f— it: I’d rather chew my own leg off than use that steaming pile of bloated-design-by-committee-why-use-1-dialog-when-500-will-do-piece-of-corporate-code-monkey-shit.
Chris Owen’s a little less so:
I’m not sure whether you would emphasise or de-emphasise the work in workaround
Meanwhile, Andreas had to get a word in on behalf of the freetards:
Yet another workaround…
Then Steve, Sysadmin extraordinaire, took the argument up a notch:
[The eclipse] link didn’t do anything useful for me. I think this is the one you wanted.
And from there, it was always going to be a straight downhill run towards Godwin’s Law. Me:
YM http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ HTH, HAND.
Tom Davies:
cat >Foo.java
Me again:
Brendan:
Chris:
And finally, Steve:
Wearable computing FTW:
The moral of this story? “Never ask a nerd for advice, for he shall say both yes, and no, and ‘get a real computer'”.