I wouldn’t write Java in an editor that wasn’t hosted in the JVM. The advantages are simply too great. On the other hand that’s a very Lispy attitude so Emacs s

I wouldn’t write Java in an editor that wasn’t hosted in the JVM. The advantages are simply too great. On the other hand that’s a very Lispy attitude so Emacs still influences me. And Eclipse at least has tolerable Emacs style bindings available. Still it sucks how much more of a PITA it is to create an Eclipse plug-in than to just write a page or two of elisp.