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People have sunk a gazillion years into vim and its plugins. Java needs an IDE to achieve productivity because of the way that language is designed - this doesn
by pekk 14y ago
People have sunk a gazillion years into vim and its plugins. Java needs an IDE to achieve productivity because of the way that language is designed - this doesn't mean a big productivity boost in other languages. Anybody that writes off vim because it's free or because Java specifically needs something like IntelliJ is being narrow minded.
- Evbn 14y agoITYM Java can take advantage of an IDE because of the language design, so you don't have to hack together scripts to do things like re-signature a method across a 100-person billion-dollar product, whereas other languages make refactoring a pain regardless.
- qu4z-2 14y agoYou're both right. Java can take advantage of an IDE, but as a result is unusable without one.