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"I'm talking about IDE with automatic refactoring, a wealth of plugins, instant squiggly-line syntax checking, source crossreferencing of libraries, etc? The on
by plinkplonk 17y ago
"I'm talking about IDE with automatic refactoring, a wealth of plugins, instant squiggly-line syntax checking, source crossreferencing of libraries, etc? The only reason I use Java is Eclipse."
wlievens, given those requirements, Java is a good choice (and I say this as someone who just gave up on java completely) and there isn't yet a feasible alternative langauge with that level of tool support afaik.
- wlievens 17y agoI figured. I'm just often looking for a justification of why I'm using a sometimes crippled language, but it always turns out my productivity and the quality of my code is higher when using Eclipse/Java.