🎨 IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2: A Stunning New UI, Smarter Git, and AI-Driven Conflict Resolution!

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2 is here, and it brings a sleek new UI that’s turning heads in the developer community. With a focus on user experience, this update makes working with Git smoother and more intuitive than ever, leaving VSCode users second-guessing their loyalty.

On August 7, Maria Kosukhina announced IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2 is out. It comes with multiple interesting improvements in areas like Spring support and Cron hinting.

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But the one that obviously took the major focus was the complete UI redesign. It even has it’s own page.

VSCode or IntelliJ IDEA? I don’t know anymore, source: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/new-ui/

One thing that catches my attention is how easy it is to work with Git. In VSCode it’s quite a distress, and it doesn’t work always as expected. here you have an info about your current branch in the header: