IntelliJ IDEA vs CodeCompare

IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages.
These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates.

Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions).
On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization.

A very complete development environment support.

IntelliJ supports many languages besides Java, some of these are: golang, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Bash, etc.

Many plugins are available for almost any task a developer may need to cover. Plugins are developed by Jetbrains themselves or by 3rd parties through the SDK available for writing them.

IntelliJ IDEA hardly ever crashes or has any issues that plague other Java IDEs like file corruption or slowness.

IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme).

The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate, and clearly worded.

With ability to step into a certain part of a large method invocation (Shift+F7), drop frame, executing code snippets, showing method return values, etc.

There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here.

The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account.

These simplify the daily work, e.g. copy/cut a whole line without the need to select it.

Verify yourselves as a student to get more perks.

Creating an embedded database, running SQL script in a dedicated terminal, viewing tables and their contents, and creating a connection to an in-memory or embedded database is fully supported.

I pay $24 a month and i have access to all jetbrain peoducts , so i use their many tools , i tried many others like netbeans , eclipse , etc , they re good but intelij is on the space and the sky is the limit . Been using it for 5 years and i cant tell i got frustrated using .it

It does not add a blank line in the other code-pane to show where code was added or deleted. It simply draws a line to show point out its location.

Three comparison panes with horizontal and vertical layouts

• Integrates with version control systems as the merging tool for conflicting file revisions
• Non-conflicting changes are merged automatically
• Merging conflicts are highlighted
• One-click conflict resolution with a mouse button

Can diff entire folders.

Can be used either as a stand-alone product or as the built in diff/merge tool for Visual Studio.

Most compare tools mark every changed line with colour, making the code just a mess with thousands of coloured lines, while all that might be changed is a sign/character on each line. Code Compare draws boxes around each changed segment and highlights only the real change with a colour.

You get a lot more if you pay for the pro version.