IntelliJ & WebStorm do I need both of these?
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I have recently purchased both of these licenses and primarily just use IntelliJ as it is what I've used for years. However, it appears that IntelliJ is fully capable of doing what WebStorm does. Is there something that I'm missing here? Do I need both of these applications?
I'm failing to see the need for WebStorm if I've got IntelliJ.
Someone please provide some input on this.
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Just found my answer from a link on stack overflow that points back to a page on the JetBrains site.
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html
Looks like IntelliJ is the Ultimate beast that does it all.
You don't need both, see also my comment at https://stackoverflow.com/a/13829907/104891 .
There is not a lot that you can't do with IntelliJ Utimate, but I do prefer to run the separate IDEs (Pycharm, Android Studio, DataGrip etc.) because the presentation of each is better tailored to the development environment and toolset. Unlike Eclipse, the memory footprint of the JetBrains tools is remarkably small and you can run multiple IDEs simultaneously without having the disk thrash all the time. I'm currently running Android Studio, DataGrip, IntelliJ IDEA and Pycharm professional plus the android emulator, an email client, the Docker server and a web browser - my laptop has just about 9GB of memory committed and no swap file in use.