25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA: The IDE That Grew Up With Java (#91)

About this episode

This episode celebrates 25 years of IntelliJ IDEA, featuring insights from JetBrains team members.

In this Foojay Podcast, we're celebrating a major milestone in Java development history: 25 years of IntelliJ IDEA. Think about it: IntelliJ IDEA launched in 2000, and since then, it has become the go-to IDE for millions of Java developers worldwide. From its revolutionary code completion and refactoring tools to AI-powered features and the recent unified Community and Ultimate release, IntelliJ has shaped how we write Java, and keeps reinventing itself to stay ahead. For this episode, I'm joined by three people from the JetBrains team who know this story inside and out. Marit van Dijk, developer advocate and contributor to the Foojay community. Anton Arhipov, also a developer advocate at JetBrains. And Dmitry Jemerov, who has been part of the IntelliJ IDEA story for a very long time. Guests Marit van Dijk https://foojay.io/today/author/marit-van-dijk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/maritvandijk/ https://mastodon.social/@maritvandijk Anton Arhipov https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonarhipov/ Dmitry Jemerov https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-jemerov-3a59b43a5/ Links Website Documentation Blog YouTube LinkedIn Bluesky Twitter Foojay Podcast #81: Maven 4 – The Future of Java Build…

People in this episode

Guests: Marit van Dijk, Anton Arhipov, Dmitry Jemerov

Topics covered

• IntelliJ IDEA
• Java development
• IDE features
• JetBrains
• software engineering

Keywords

• IntelliJ IDEA
• Java
• IDE
• JetBrains
• software development
• code completion
• refactoring tools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JetBrains

Products: IntelliJ IDEA

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