Since I dislike it in Intellij and I use their IDE quite a bit for Android/Java, Python, JavaScript or PHP, I disable the Java anti-alias setting and most fonts tend to look bad that way as they're designed for smoothing. I don't mind it elsewhere, but Java just sucks at rendering fonts with its generic anti-aliasing scheme. I generally dislike anti-aliasing/smoothing on fonts when writing code in certain editors/ides (looking at you Intellij Idea). Deja Vu just takes up way more space than it needs to and (my opinion) does not make it anymore readable than Liberation or Dina. I can fit around 7 more lines on my 1920x1200 monitor with 13pt Liberation versus 12pt Deja Vu. Liberation Mono is a more vertically compact font, but I consider it just as readable as Deja Vu. Some of my reasons are preference (what looks better) and some are factual (like spacing). It's hard for me to give you an exact comparison (because I'm not an OSX user and have never used Menlo), but I can give you an idea based on a comparison to Deja Vu (on both Linux and Windows 7).
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