According to the company, the new release also takes the next evolutionary step by providing web, enterprise, and client-server programmers with functionality for building, running, and maintaining SQL queries – an essential part of DB-based application development. This functionality is now fully supported within the core of the IDE, tightly integrated into your Java code and the persistence environment.
Version 8 utilizes the JetBrains IDE platform. This all-new platform is also the base for two stand-alone Ruby and Python IDEs that JetBrains plans to release in the coming months, said JetBrains.
Max Shafirov, project lead of IntelliJ Idea at JetBrain, said: Although IntelliJ Idea has grown a lot during the recent years and added support for many frameworks and languages, at the heart it remains a code-centric IDE. This has always been our main focus, and this is what we believe to be a natural approach to developing even complex applications with pleasure. We are confident that this update will not only delight our current customers, but will also help spread the appeal of IntelliJ Idea to a wider audience.
