IDEA 6.0 Looks Amazing

IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 (Demetra): The EAP has begun!:

When we announced that the EAP for Demetra, the next version of IntelliJ IDEA, would start as soon as the version 5.1 is released, I don’t think people thought ‘as soon as’ meant ‘a’few hours after’. But it did, and the first EAP build of Demetra is now available, along with a list of new features.

(Via Dmitry Jemerov’s Weblog.)

I saw the feature list a while back, but now that the EAP is coming and we are actually going to see those features get created over the next 6-12 months, I can only say that I am extremely excited. Provided they support Ant and Maven enough, the idea of paring a build server with an IDE is extremely appealing.

Now just to make sure they provide a good API for the build server, so that Autoriginate can do some cool things…