IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition For Linux

IntelliJ IDEA is one of the most successful and popular products to have ever come from JetBrains.

It's probably the best Java IDE currently on the market, and it comes in two editions: Community and Ultimate.

The Community Edition of IntelliJ is free and open-source and provides fewer advanced features than the premium Ultimate edition.

Nevertheless, the Community Edition provides a lightweight yet very capable IDE for Java development.

Not only that but it also comes with support for Groovy, Kotlin, Scala (via a plugin), Dart, Rust, Python, Jython, HTML, XML, JSON, YAML, XSL, XPath, and Markdown.

The community edition also comes with support for the following frameworks: Android, Swing, and JavaFX.

In terms of build tools, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition integrates with major build automation tools for Java, Scala, and JavaScript.

It also comes with support for Maven, Gradle, Ant, sbt, Bloop, and Fury.

The Community Edition comes with a debugger, decompiler, Bytecode viewer, test coverage, test runners, and an embedded terminal. In short, an impressive toolset for workflow optimization.

Another advantage of the Community Edition is the fact that it works with all the version control platforms as the Ultimate Edition. These include Git, GitHub, Subversion, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server, and Perforce.

Probably the biggest difference between the Community Edition and the Ultimate one is related to the provided deployment methods.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition can only deploy projects to Docker, and Docker Compose (via a plugin).

The app can also host up to 50 guests for an unlimited period. It comes with custom themes, Space integration, issue tracker integration, support for diagrams, dependency structure matrix, and can also detect duplicates.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is a comprehensive app all on its own. It's a solid foundation for the Ultimate Edition (that boasts a lot more web development, enterprise-grade features), and it offers users a surprising amount of useful features.