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I wonder where Java would be today without superb tooling and smart student programs from JetBrains.
by ivanjermakov 1y ago
I wonder where Java would be today without superb tooling and smart student programs from JetBrains.
- pjmlp 1y agoJava has enjoyed powerful IDEs since late 1990's, some of them are even free beer!
- Onewildgamer 1y agoJava was thriving during the golden age of Eclipse Foundation and IDE. JetBrains is very much recent.
- stevoski 1y ago> JetBrains is very much recent. JetBrains is 25 years old, almost as old as Java.
- szatkus 1y agoIntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that.
- jen20 1y agoIt was in heavy use in London investment banks in 2005. Even resharper was commonplace by the following year.
- TheFreim 1y agoAround 10 years ago Eclipse was still the primary editor in the circles I was in.
- pjmlp 1y agoStill is on my circles, and at home I have been always a Netbeans fan. I am an IDE guy since Borland products for MS-DOS, yet I was never sold on InteliJ anyway, and Android Studio made me dislike it even further.
- karmakaze 1y agoI was using Eclipse back then, but indeed Wikipedia says IDEA 1.0 (Jan 2001) predates Eclipse IDE (Nov 2001). NetBeans was bought by Sun in 1999 and opensourced on Jun 2000.
- tsimionescu 1y agoThe Java world had plenty of student programs without Jet Brains. There is even a student-focused IDE, BlueJ, with plenty of visual representations to help people new to programming get their bearings - and this existed since 1999.
- jen20 1y agoSadly BlueJ teaches people almost exactly the wrong things about object-oriented programming.