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Re:Omnisharp – Tools and extensions to work with C# in any e... by sgt on Thursday December 10, 2015 @09:55AM (#10710843)
My first thought - someone should do this with Java as well. One could argue that Java developers are held hostage by IDE's stuck in the past.

As a Java developer, I'm given a platform when all I needed was something a lot simpler. Note that autocompletion is not enough to efficiently code in Java though (especially Java EE), you need a bit more - but the current IDE's are relics of the past.

My personal opinion is that IntelliJ is the best IDE out there, but I'd like to see a vast simplification of your typical Java development environment.

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Re:Omnisharp – Tools and extensions to work with C# in any e... by NoGravitas on Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:03AM (#10711271)
It would be nice. There's an older package for doing Java completion, JDEE, which takes a similar approach (running a helper in BeanShell). But it is difficult to configure, and fragile, and doesn't have enough active developers to keep it up to date.

OmniSharp is a lot simpler, in that you just point the server at a solution file, and it just works. There was talk on the JDEE mailing list a while back about doing something similar using Maven POMs, but I don't think it took off.

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Re:Omnisharp – Tools and extensions to work with C# in any e... by snarfy on Thursday December 10, 2015 @10:00AM (#10710877)
It could happen for lots of languages. What's needed is an NRefactory or Roslyn like API for these other languages.
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Re:Omnisharp – Tools and extensions to work with C# in any e... by yulaow on Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:01AM (#10711261)
try eclim with emacs
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