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Code Climate vs IntelliJ IDEA: What are the differences?

Key Differences between Code Climate and IntelliJ IDEA

  1. Code Quality Analysis: Code Climate is primarily a code quality analysis tool that focuses on providing insights into the health and maintainability of code. It offers automated code review, identifies code smells, and enforces best practices. On the other hand, IntelliJ IDEA is a fully-featured integrated development environment (IDE) that provides code analysis capabilities as a part of its suite of tools. It offers a wide range of functionalities beyond code quality analysis, such as code editing, debugging, version control integration, and more.

  2. Language Support: Code Climate offers support for various programming languages, including JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and more. It supports a wide range of frameworks and tools specific to each language. IntelliJ IDEA, on the other hand, provides robust language support for a much broader range of programming languages, including Java, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Go, and more. It also offers extensive support for popular frameworks and libraries specific to these languages.

  3. IDE Integration: IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE that provides a comprehensive development environment with integrated tools for code editing, debugging, testing, and deployment. It offers a seamless development experience by tightly integrating with build tools, version control systems, application servers, and other development utilities. Code Climate, on the other hand, is primarily a cloud-based service that can be integrated with the developer's existing IDEs or code hosting platforms for continuous code quality analysis.

  4. Code Intelligence and Assistance: IntelliJ IDEA offers advanced code intelligence and assistance features such as intelligent code completion, code refactoring, quick fixes, and context-aware suggestions. It analyzes the code in real-time and provides suggestions to improve the code quality and efficiency. Code Climate focuses more on providing insights into code quality issues and best practices rather than offering advanced code intelligence features.

  5. Collaboration and Workflow: Code Climate provides features that support collaboration, code reviews, and workflow management. It allows teams to track their code quality improvements over time, set goals, and involve stakeholders in the code review process. IntelliJ IDEA, on the other hand, offers collaborative features through its integration with version control systems like Git, allowing developers to work together on projects and manage code changes effectively.

  6. Cost and Pricing Model: Code Climate offers both free and paid plans for individuals and organizations. Its pricing is based on the number of repositories and additional features required. IntelliJ IDEA offers a mix of free and paid versions, with the Community Edition being free for most programming languages. The Ultimate Edition, which provides more advanced features and support for additional languages, requires a paid license.

In summary, Code Climate focuses on code quality analysis and best practices with cloud-based integration, while IntelliJ IDEA is a comprehensive IDE with extensive language support, advanced code intelligence features, collaboration capabilities, and a range of integrated development tools.

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christy craemer
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PyCharmPyCharm

UPDATE: Thanks for the great response. I am going to start with VSCode based on the open source and free version that will allow me to grow into other languages, but not cost me a license ..yet.

I have been working with software development for 12 years, but I am just beginning my journey to learn to code. I am starting with Python following the suggestion of some of my coworkers. They are split between Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA for IDEs that they use and PyCharm is new to me. Which IDE would you suggest for a beginner that will allow expansion to Java, JavaScript, and eventually AngularJS and possibly mobile applications?

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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code

Pycharm is great for python development, but can feel sometimes slow and community version has Somme very annoying restrictions (like they disabled jupyter notebooks plugin and made it premium feature). I personally started looking into VS Code as an alternative, and it has some very good potential. I suggest you take it into account.

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PyCharmPyCharm

The Community version of PyCharm is free and should give you what you need to get started with Python. Both PyCharm and IntelliJ are made by JetBrains. IntelliJ is initially focused on Java but you can get plugins for lots of other things. I subscribe to JetBrains' Toolbox: https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/ and have access to all of their great tools.

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Charles Nelson
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IntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEA

I couldn't imagine using a development tool other than the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate All Products Pack. A single license allows me to work directly on my server running Ubuntu and/or my workstation running Windows 10 Pro simultaneously. My current project uses HTML, W3CSS, JavaScript, Java, Groovy, Grails, C, GO, Python, Flask, and Rust. For me it's worth every penny of the $150 license fee. And you can try it for free.

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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code

Hi, I will give my opinion based on my experience. I have used PyCharm, both community and Professional version. The community has limited functions, like you can't use a Jupyter notebook whereas it's available in the Professional version. PyCharm is slower compared to Visual Studio Code. Also Visual Studio Code is an editor which supports various languages. I myself have used both Visual Studio Code and PyCharm. I feel Visual Studio Code would be better choice. You may as well decide based upon your requirements.

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awesomebanana2018
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code

Visual Studio code is easy to use, has a good UI, and a large community. Python works great with it, but unlike some other editors, it works with most languages either by default or by downloading a plugin. VS Code has built in linting, syntax coloring, autocompletes (IntelliSense), and an api for plugins to do there own tooling.

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Ivan Martinez Morales
Software Engineer Intern · | 4 upvotes · 658.3K views
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code

I'd personally recommend Visual Studio Code as it gives you the flexibility of working in any language, so long as there are extensions to support it. It gives you the flexibility to learn Python, venture into Java, Javascript, and eventually AngularJS, and potentially mobile applications. It's also free and you can install it on your personal computer. I think Visual Studio Code would serve your intended use case best.

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Isaac Povey
Casual Software Engineer at Skedulo · | 3 upvotes · 658.4K views
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IntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ really is the best for Java, I switched from eclipse years ago and never looked back. As for javascript, python and angular either using the standalone products from jetbrains (pycharm for python, webstorm for js) or installing the relevant plugins for InteliJ will be your best bet. Pycharm etc. are really just InteliJ with some additional plugins installed.

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Pranshu Verma
Engineer at Cisco Systems · | 3 upvotes · 658.4K views
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PyCharmPyCharm

If you starting with Python then PyCharm is better. For Java I would suggest to go with IntelliJ IDEA but people also prefer eclipse so I would say try both and then decide. For JS/Angular/React I would suggest go with VSCode. I personally use it and prefer as its light weight and have good integration with chrome for frontend development.

PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA are both products of JetBrains. They have a free (limited feature) and paid edition. Eclipse is free. VSCode is also free.

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Pritam Nandy
Engineering Manager at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited · | 1 upvotes · 605.8K views
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PyCharmPyCharm

This is a very easy to use tool and gives you the opportunity to start coding right after the installation with almost everything setup automatically by the tool.

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PyCharmPyCharm

Pycharm is all you need to get start coding in python or any of its framework. Its an awesome tool you should give it a try :)

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Brian Turner
System Architect at Mary's Watch, Inc. · | 1 upvotes · 658.3K views
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IntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEA

Easy to learn and everything you need

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PyCharmPyCharm

All three are great, however, I believe that IntelliJ IDEA's multiple IDE's are slightly more straight-forward and more up-to date than Eclipse. If I had to choose one specifically for Python projects I would go with PyCharm.

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Decisions about Code Climate and IntelliJ IDEA
Manabu Tokunaga
CEO, Co-Founder at WinguMD · | 10 upvotes · 501.1K views

I originally chose IntelliJ over Eclipse, as it was close enough to the look and feel of Visual Studio and we do go back and forth between the two. We really begin to love IntelliJ and their suite of IDEs so we are now using AppCode for the IOS development because the workflow is identical with the IntelliJ. IntelliJ is super complex and intimidating at first but it does afford a lot of nice utilities to get us produce clean code.

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Pros of Code Climate
Pros of IntelliJ IDEA
  • 71
    Auto sync with Github
  • 49
    Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean
  • 45
    Better coding
  • 30
    Free for open source
  • 21
    Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates
  • 15
    Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code
  • 13
    Great UI
  • 11
    Makes you a better coder
  • 10
    Duplication Detection
  • 5
    Safe and Secure
  • 2
    Private
  • 2
    Extremely accurate in telling you the errors
  • 2
    GitHub only
  • 2
    Python inspection
  • 2
    Great open community
  • 2
    GitHub integration, status inline in PRs
  • 2
    Uses rubocop
  • 1
    Locally Installable API
  • 301
    Fantastically intelligent
  • 242
    Best-in-class ide
  • 190
    Many languages support
  • 158
    Java
  • 121
    Fast
  • 82
    Code analysis
  • 79
    Reliable
  • 76
    Out of the box integration with maven, git, svn
  • 64
    Plugin architecture
  • 61
    Integrated version control
  • 12
    Code refactoring support
  • 11
    Best java IDE
  • 7
    Local history
  • 6
    Code Completion
  • 6
    Kotlin
  • 6
    Integrated Database Navigator
  • 6
    Built-in terminal/run tools
  • 5
    All
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    Free for open-source development, students and teacher
  • 5
    Base for Android Studio
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    Free If you're a Student
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    ERD Diagrams
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    Free
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    Cross platform
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    IDE
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    Database/Code integration
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    Out Of The Box features
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    Column Selection Mode
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    Server and client-side debugger
  • 3
    More than enough languages for any developer
  • 3
    Typescript support
  • 3
    Multicursor support
  • 3
    Reformating Code
  • 3
    Intuitive
  • 3
    Command-line tools
  • 3
    Android Integration
  • 3
    Vim support
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    Special icons for most filetypes in project list
  • 3
    Supports many frameworks
  • 3
    Built-in web server
  • 3
    Live Templates
  • 3
    Scala support
  • 2
    Works fine with mac os catalina
  • 2
    A lot of plugin
  • 2
    Just works
  • 2
    Integrated Ssh/Ftp Managers
  • 2
    Full support
  • 2
    Task managers
  • 2
    Diff tools
  • 2
    File Watchers
  • 2
    Support for various package managers
  • 2
    Integrated Code Linting
  • 2
    Clean UI
  • 2
    Open source
  • 2
    So modernised
  • 2
    Efficient, one Stop solution

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Cons of Code Climate
Cons of IntelliJ IDEA
  • 2
    Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint
  • 1
    Complains about small stylistic decisions
  • 20
    Large footprint required to really enjoy (mem/disc)
  • 16
    Very slow
  • 8
    Bad for beginners
  • 7
    UI is not intuitive
  • 5
    Not nearly as many tools to integrate as vs code
  • 5
    Constant reindexing
  • 4
    Needs a lot of CPU and RAM power
  • 3
    Built in terminal is slow
  • 3
    Doesn't work that well with windows 10 edu
  • 1
    Ruby is a plug in
  • 1
    Pesky warnings increase with every release
  • 0
    AAD

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What is Code Climate?

After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

What is IntelliJ IDEA?

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.

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