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• Longhanks 8y ago
  The only "standard" full-fledged IDEs I can think of that are Java are IntelliJ and Eclipse. Visual Studio (WPF), Xcode (Cocoa), Qt Creator (Qt), KDevelop (KDE Frameworks/Qt), GTK Builder (GTK) are all built with their platform's native toolkit. Concerning text editors, I think that field is split between Electron-based, Sublime and terminal-based editors. I can't picture users writing in Java editors in 2018.
  • thrower123 8y ago
    > Concerning text editors, I think that field is split between Electron-based, Sublime and terminal-based editors There is still the whole family of Scintilla-based editors out there. I use Notepad++ and Geany all the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)
  • mhd 8y ago
    Let me clarify that, with "standard" I didn't mean exclusive, just that running a Java IDE ain't exactly exotic or weird. IntelliJ and its variants alone are a good share of the market.
  • adl 8y ago
    Pycharm, Webstorm, Goland and Intellij, are some of the most used IDEs, all Java based.
    • laumars 8y ago
      That's a little disingenuous because they're all JetBrains IDEs and thus are just variations of IntelliJ
    • rhodysurf 8y ago
      Those are all basically the exact same application