Java is perfectly usable without an IDE. Just like any other language is usable without one. The question is: why? Why would you not use an IDE? Looking at ref

Java is perfectly usable without an IDE. Just like any other language is usable without one. The question is: why? Why would you not use an IDE? Looking at refactoring capabilities alone you'd want those for any language [1] And on the fly actionable code analysis [2]? Why would you not want that for a programming language? [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/refactoring-source-code.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/refactoring-source-code.... [2] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/list-of-java-inspections.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/list-of-java-inspections...