The evolution of features in IntelliJ IDEA
summary
A history of IntelliJ IDEA editor features focusing on code completion, parameter hints, and debugging helpers. It traces changes like removing a separate class-name completion in favor of improved ordinary completion and heuristics, expanding completion scope with repeated keypresses (including auto-insert and three-times completion that adds unresolved classes and suggests dependencies), implementing parameter name hints first via folding then as noninvasive inline hints, simplifying Smart Step Into in 2019.2, and using usage statistics to promote, hide, or remove features.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Code completion evolution
- 15:55Java code folding
- 25:28Smart step debugger
- 31:21Balancing feature evolution
- 34:22Q&A
