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IntelliJ IDEA is a popular IDE by JetBrains. It is often simply referred to as 'IDEA' or 'IntelliJ'. First released in 2001, it is mostly focused on boosting developer's productivity, providing a wide set of automated refactorings to ease codebase evolutions. Rich plugin development API can be used to add almost any type of functionality, including new languages/frameworks support, VCS integation or build management with custom tools involved. Intellij Idea also serves as a base platform for other IDE software: PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine.
The Ultimate (commercial) version of the tool offers support for enterprise class development, while the open-source (free) version is often used for android, groovy, scala and web development. A 30-day fully functional trial of the Ultimate edition for various platforms can be freely downloaded.
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