Maybe I'm in the minority for the HN community, but even I would struggle to write Java without an IDE. I've done it before and compiled manually using javac, b

Maybe I'm in the minority for the HN community, but even I would struggle to write Java without an IDE. I've done it before and compiled manually using javac, but if someone asked me to do that in an interview I might struggle. The IDE just does too much in java, from generating boilerplate code, to managing packages and imports, and autocompletion. Maybe that's the reason I've almost never done interview questions in java. I always use python/javascript, because I write those with VIM, even though, until recently I did only a small percentage of my professional programming with those languages.