Can I use IntelliJ community?

It depends on “casual.” IntelliJ has a lot of features and is designed for large projects. So, casual hacking won’t justify the price. But if you’re building a project after work, or want to practice your skills, then it is worth it .

Originally Answered: Which is the better general purpose Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA community edition or Eclipse? IMHO – the community edition of IntelliJ is better . It’s the same IDE, just some of the more advanced features, such as Spring support are not enabled.4 Mar 2015

The free IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, built on open source code, is for pure JVM development.

Originally Answered: Which is the better general purpose Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA community edition or Eclipse? IMHO – the community edition of IntelliJ is better . It’s the same IDE, just some of the more advanced features, such as Spring support are not enabled.4 Mar 2015