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You seem to jump to a lot of conclusions. My set-up for Java is pretty light-weight: nothing is generated for me by IntelliJ (except for if I use any of the ref
by henrik_w 14y ago
You seem to jump to a lot of conclusions. My set-up for Java is pretty light-weight: nothing is generated for me by IntelliJ (except for if I use any of the refactoring tools). We have our own tools for generating ORM code, but that would be the same regardless of editor/IDE.
There are pros and cons with Java, but if that's what the application is written in, then I'd much rather use IntelliJ than Emacs/Vim. The reason is that a lot of the coding is navigating the code base - finding out what the arguments of a method are, or finding out all the usages of a class/method/variable. This is much quicker in IntelliJ than in a generic editor.
Another argument I hear a lot against IDEs in general (although not from you) is that they force you to click the menues a lot. Not true. There are great built-in keyboard short-cuts, and of course you can create your own, so there is not a lot of reasons to touch the mouse.
- lispm 14y agoI'm a Lisp programmer, so maybe the navigation experience is different for Java - but the navigation experience in Emacs is just great for me. Emacs is not the generic editor, but reprogrammed with special modes (for Common Lisp this is SLIME) to provide all this information: arguments, who calls / uses, etc. Emacs connects to a running Common Lisp and provides live queries into the software under development. That's pretty cool.
- coldtea 14y agoA question because I find this amusing. You are a "Commons Lisp" programmer? Working where? On hobby projects? I understand that there ARE Common Lisp jobs, but those are few and far between compared to more established languages. So, what exactly do you do with Common Lisp?
- henrik_w 14y agoI've listed (at Stackoverflow) the IntelliJ keyboard short-cuts I use the most: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/294167/what-are-the-most-useful-intellij-idea-keyboard-shortcuts/1914916#1914916 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/294167/what-are-the-most-...