> it's more or less impossible to be productive in Java without an IDE At my last full-time Java job most of us used Emacs and we got along just fine. I think

> it's more or less impossible to be productive in Java without an IDE At my last full-time Java job most of us used Emacs and we got along just fine. I think the real trick is not to write shit code. Another job I had I used a dialect of Lisp (won't name any names...) which relied pretty heavily on an IDE. It was painful to work in the IDE or in Emacs, but that's because it was shit code.