Basically because IntelliJ had support for Play Framework projects and was getting weird errors in Netbeans for some reason.
At the time Netbeans seemed ( and was ) dead on the water so I invested a bit o energy and frustration to learn the IntelliJ ins and outs of operating.
Still, I think and maybe it's an unpopular opinion, Netbeans auto-complete was top-notch and more "intelligent" than IntelliJ's, also much lighter IDE, IntelliJ has to thank the silicon Gods for all the cheap available RAM and processing power.
Basically because IntelliJ had support for Play Framework projects and was getting weird errors in Netbeans for some reason.
At the time Netbeans seemed ( and was ) dead on the water so I invested a bit o energy and frustration to learn the IntelliJ ins and outs of operating.
Still, I think and maybe it's an unpopular opinion, Netbeans auto-complete was top-notch and more "intelligent" than IntelliJ's, also much lighter IDE, IntelliJ has to thank the silicon Gods for all the cheap available RAM and processing power.