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A good text editor with intellisense and refactoring is all most developers need. Unfortunately this beast don't exists so we're stuck with VS/Eclipse/etc for s
by mariusmg 14y ago
A good text editor with intellisense and refactoring is all most developers need. Unfortunately this beast don't exists so we're stuck with VS/Eclipse/etc for static typed languages.
At least they should try to make IDEs more modular so they can be "stripped" to editor + intellisense + refactoring. But no....the innards are too twisted together for this so you're stuck with the entire beast :(
- spullara 14y agoI think you could probably do this as long as the IDE understood an external project file format like maven — getting rid of IDE specific configuration files is a big win. Otherwise it is hard to know what the dependencies are in order to allow for intellisense and refactoring. As soon as you do that though people will ask for plugins and then people will make plugins and then you'll be back where you started. IntelliJ isn't much more than a project file format, an editor and a plugin API.