To decide for yourself, I recommend the videos that Jeff Way at Nettuts put together to improve your workflow. Watch the first one (it's only 2.5 minutes long) to get a feel for whether it's worth watching any of the rest. If you watch just a couple more, I'll bet you'll be hooked, though.
What do I like about it? I'll summarize in terms that are the most important to me:
- Multi-platform (Linux, Windows and OSX - all platforms I use regularly).
- You can open a folder and use it like a project. None of the long tedious "import" BS that you have to do in Eclipse.
- Quick file and symbol searching. (Seriously, I can type command-P, part of a file name, "@" and part of a symbol to drill to a particular method in a particular Java class. That's all kinds of awesome!)
I never much liked vi (though I can use it in a half-assed way), and I'm not all that thrilled with using a heavyweight IDE like Eclipse (the flakiness outweighs the benefits of having a continuous build too).
Now I can finally be one of those guys who is comfortable with just a shell and a stand-alone editor to do all of their programming work. That's a level of nerd-cool that I have heretofore reserved for people like Magnus.
Maybe I should grow a beard.
