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My experience has been the exact opposite: Java IDEs are bulky and hard to navigate while VS is at least bulky and easy to navigate. :-)
by j_baker 16y ago
My experience has been the exact opposite: Java IDEs are bulky and hard to navigate while VS is at least bulky and easy to navigate. :-)
- jrockway 16y agoOh yeah, definitely. As an example, just look at the intuitive icons they picked: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y47ychfe(VS.80).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y47ychfe(VS.80).aspx That's so easy to understand I definitely didn't even need to read the docs...
- moron4hire 16y agoYou pick those up in context pretty quickly. If you know a class has a method "DoSomething" and you see the pink block icon next to "DoSomething" and "DoSomethingElse", then you learn pretty quickly that "DoSomethingElse" must be another method.
- endtime 16y agoOkay, how would you design icons for abstract concepts like struct and interface? About half those icons actually make a lot of sense to me (the other half are just arbitrary symbols, as far as I can tell).
- bokchoi 16y agoI haven't tried VS 2010, but in previous releases there was no "Go to class..." type functionality! How is that easy to navigate? Thank god for JetBrains ReSharper plugin. All the major Java IDEs have had "Go to class..." for a long time.
- ghurlman 16y agoIt's there in 2010 (CTRL-,).
- briansmith 16y agoBut, not in the express editions.
- Qz 16y ago2008 and 2010 both have it, as well as a lot of other easy ways to navigate,
- tomjen3 16y agoI haven't had any issues with clunky Java IDEs since my 256mb ram IBM laptop died. Visual studio on the other hand lacks so many of the things that made it nice to develop in Java, such as automatic implementation of interfaces, inplace renaming, the ability to move a variable from being inside a method to becoming a field at the click of a few buttons. That said, C# is light years ahead of Java - too bad that the ide isn't.