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Eclipse is bloated, granted, but if you think its strong point is "dragging and dropping getters and setters" then you haven't seriously tried it. I used to th
by jsankey 14y ago
Eclipse is bloated, granted, but if you think its strong point is "dragging and dropping getters and setters" then you haven't seriously tried it. I used to think IDEs didn't matter much for basic code editing, but had to change my opinion after using Eclipse and IntelliJ (my preference) for a while. Higher-level (as in -- with knowledge of the programming language) editing and refactoring can make a big difference to your editing experience. Tasks that were tedious become trivial and part of the normal flow. You actually find yourself writing code in a different way once you understand how easily you can manipulate blocks of code (rather than just blocks of text).
- snprbob86 14y agoI've been stuck doing Java lately (grumble grumble). I love Vim, but occasionally, I just want an IDE to dull the Java boilerplate pain. I've been copy pasting sample snippets in to IntelliJ, auto-adding all the import statements, and then going back to do my main coding in Vim. I have to close IntelliJ quickly, however, lest the Swing fonts BURN OUT MY RETNAS on my Linux box. How can anybody get any work done with font rendering that bad?!
- Flow 14y agoJetbrains are changing their platform to use native font rendering. From their blog: "default look and feel on Linux changed from GTK+ to Alloy IDEA – it uses system fonts and has a much better overall quality (worth to try for current users too)"
- Daire 14y agoYou can get vi keybinding plugins for IntelliJ and Eclipse (and netbeans). They make it a little better.