Geany vs IntelliJ IDEA vs Visual Studio

Overview

Visual Studio

Stacks48.9K

Followers37.9K

Votes1.1K

IntelliJ IDEA

Stacks44.2K

Followers36.9K

Votes1.5K

Geany

Stacks36

Followers56

Votes21

GitHub Stars3.4K

Forks643

Detailed Comparison

Visual Studio	IntelliJ IDEA	Geany
Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.	Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.	Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
-	Smart Code Completion;On-the-fly Code Analysis;Advanced Refactorings;Database Tools;UML Designer;Version Control Tools;Build Tools	syntax highlighting;code completion;auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while;auto completion of XML and HTML tags;call tips;folding;many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal;symbol lists;embedded terminal emulation;extensibility through plugins
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 3.4K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 643
Stacks 48.9K	Stacks 44.2K	Stacks 36
Followers 37.9K	Followers 36.9K	Followers 56
Votes 1.1K	Votes 1.5K	Votes 21
Pros & Cons
Pros 305 Intellisense, ui 244 Complete ide and debugger 165 Plug-ins 104 Integrated 93 Documentation Cons 16 Bulky 14 Made by Microsoft 6 Sometimes you need to restart to finish an update 3 Only avalible on Windows 3 Too much size for disk	Pros 301 Fantastically intelligent 242 Best-in-class ide 190 Many languages support 158 Java 121 Fast Cons 20 Large footprint required to really enjoy (mem/disc) 16 Very slow 8 Bad for beginners 7 UI is not intuitive 5 Constant reindexing	Pros 6 Lightweight 5 Open-source 5 Plug-ins 3 Extensive file-type support 2 Easily changeable Cons 1 Less pupular than VS
Integrations
No integrations available	Java	No integrations available

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