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> when you want to do more than quickly update a few files, you need a full Integrated Development Environment (IDE). I remember that when I was developing wit
by pmontra 4y ago
> when you want to do more than quickly update a few files, you need a full Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
I remember that when I was developing with compiled languages ages ago (C and Java) I had an emacs configuration to compile and debug from within the editor. Eventually I gaved up emacs when writing Java and switched to Netbeans and Eclipse. Then I switched to interpreted languages (Ruby, Node, Python) and I'm using emacs again. Plain modes for those languages, no autocompleters except a very basic language indipendent one and it works like a charm. It also works like that with Elixir and Phoenix, which autocompiles itself. It's been probably 10 years since I installed an IDE on one of my computers.
- tmtvl 4y agoI think the main problem with trying to program Java in a text editor is the fact that we need to import every single package separately, or even worse: every class seperately. Doing Java programming in, say, Emacs would be fine if it weren't for import hell.