Saturday, February 7, 2009

IntelliJ IDEA 2.6

It’s always interesting to see what things were like in the past. It’s even more interesting to see things that are not easily accessible. I can always start vi and pretend I’m in 70s but since it’s so easy to do and because vi (or vim) installed almost on any *nix box it’s not fun. Therefore, I tried old versions of IntelliJ.

I got into java somewhere about 2004. As you can guess in 2004 IntelliJ IDEA 4 was the latest version (you can guess because IntelliJ versions correspond to the current year, so in 2011 there will be IntelliJ 11) and I’ve never used any version prior to 4. Recently I got hold of IntelliJ version 2 and 3 (you can download version 3 here). Summarizing my impression in three words “they are fast”. Here are some screenshots of IntelliJ 2 to get a feel of what it was like.

It's not cracked ;) Just don't want to disclose the owner.