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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by positr0n on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:02AM (#23474680)
I am about as hardcore a vim user as they get and I would never edit Java without an IDE.

That being said the first thing I do after installing IntelliJ is open the plugin settings and install IdeaVim.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by srazzaque on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:24AM (#23475884)
Im the same, s/vim/emacs/, though I'm also very comfortable in Vim.

I use Emacs for a tonne of stuff, and basically any other language I use. But for Java, with its deeply hierarchical codebases and general verbosity, there's just no sane way to manage that complexity smoothly without a good IDE.

(One could argue that if a language necessitates an IDE to work with it, then that's a failure of the language's DX. But thats an entirely separate discussion.)

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