IDE for Grails

Question: What are the options for selecting an IDE for Grails?

Answer: There’s just one - Intellij IDEA

Hey, wait a minute, you might say. What about Eclipse plugin for Grails?

It has a long way to go to get there. Currently it’s an awkward baby who wants to be the center of attention. Hopefully, it will become a real helper when it grows up.

Grails create-app command creates an Eclipse project. I feel good about it as it manifests the understanding in the Grails community of Eclipse importance as a development platform. The community should make the next logical step and come up with a competitive support for Grails development in Eclipse.

Eclipse-based IDEs are a de facto standard in the enterprise. Grails will not see a significant level of enterprise adoption before it gets along with Eclipse.