TIP: Mathematica: The IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Mathematica is HEAPS better than the Eclipse-based Wolfram Workbench (at least for the Wolfram Language as used by Webel projects)!

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Don't hesitate! This Plugin will make your Wolfram Language coding life heaps more enjoyable if you work on very complex projects:
Wolfram Language Plugin for IntelliJ platform based IDE’s
Dr Darren says:
Many thanks to Patrick Scheibe for developing the IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Mathematica!
The Eclipse-based Wolfram Workbench is better than nothing (and gratitude is due to the developers for their efforts), but the IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ Wolfram Language Plugin are better, at least for the very complex Mathematica projects of Webel IT Australia. In particular, the language syntax recognition and refactoring is far better in the IntelliJ IDEA Plugin, and it handles all permitted characters (such as '$') properly. The IntelliJ IDEA Plugin also has superior groupings of expressions by type (Message, Options, Attributes, Set, SetDelayed, TagSetDelayed etc.). And it is far more robust.
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Webel Abstract Data Types (ADTs) vs the user-contributed MTools for OO
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[TOOL]{INFORMATIVE} LINKS: Wolfram Workbench for Mathematica (or just use the far superior IntelliJ IDEA Plugin)
[ISSUE, LIMITATION, MODELLING, TOOL] Mathematica: Some links on Object-Orientation (or the lack thereof)
[FEATURE, ISSUE, LIMITATION, WISHLIST] Mathematica: Wolfram Workbench: Basic variable name refactoring is not supported. (Or just use the IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Mathematica, which does variable and function renaming well.)
[ISSUE, TOOL, WORKAROUND] Mathematica: Wolfram Workbench: Sometimes the code syntax checking goes haywire (with red nearly everywhere) for no good reason (even when the code load and runs fine in Mathematica). WORKAROUND: Just restart Eclipse.
[ISSUE, TOOL]{INFORMATIVE} Mathematica: Wolfram Workbench: Sometimes the Outline view gets completely out of sync with the .m or .wl Package code
[ISSUE, MODELLING, TIP, TOOL, WARNING, WORKAROUND]{INFORMATIVE} The integration between Wolfram Workbench and Mathematica is partly gammy (as of latest versions 2022-08-23)
[FEATURE, TIP, TOOL]{INFORMATIVE} Webel vs Mathematica: The Very Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
[GOTCHA, ISSUE, LIMITATION, TOOL]{INFORMATIVE} Wolfram Workbench for Mathematica: Limitation: Using more than one '$' sign within function names blocks navigation on function usages.
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Wolfram Language Plugin for IntelliJ platform based IDE’s
Open-source IntelliJ IDEA plugin to support Mathematica development