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>The ergonomics of Java kind of sucked until IntelliJ IDEA came out Not sure what's that about, JBuilder was great, so was Eclipse. I know people love IDEA but

• projektfu 6y ago
  I didn't use JBuilder, perhaps it was wonderful. Until IDEA (and Eclipse) most people I knew were using their favorite text editor, such as Emacs, vi, or Notepad++. Each one had some benefits, but I never had that ease of use I had when IDEA came out. This is all subjective, but I'm surprised people thought that the ergonomics of the language were pretty good before 2000.
  • qw 6y ago
    At work (2001) we used JBuilder, and it was a real productivity boost for me. The GUI felt very natural and powerful. Borland knew how to make good IDEs.
    • xxs 6y ago
      For what is worth - I used it even earlier and I still remap the most used shortcuts to JBuillder's ones, e.g. ctrl+- to open classes. The shortcuts were somewhat optimized for use of both hands on the keyboard w/o mouse. I still prefer not to use mouse when I code.
• yc12340 6y ago
  Both Eclipse and NetBeans had some kind of IntelliSense, but it didn't scale very well. Scanning and re-scanning project took long time. Freshly written code either didn't appear in auto-completion lists or appeared after long delay. Huge projects lagged horribly — and that was just with basic auto-completion. Doing on-fly null-checks and displaying hints, like Idea does, was completely outside of reach. I don't know, if today Eclipse fares better, beacuse like many people I switched to IntelliJ never looked back.