Switching from Vim to Intellij

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by a_imho on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:07AM (#24999376)

So much so, that I suspect a lot of programming languages not see wider adaptation because of crude tooling. What good does it make to have advanced language features when the development experience is subpar?

I would suspect if a language advertises it has superior reasoning capabilities about code that should also enable a superior IDE experience as well. Where are those IDEs?

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by jmarcher on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:05PM (#25000933)

No kidding, I tend to wait for Jetbrains to support things officially before seriously trying new languages. I just need my refactoring tools.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by spuz on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:51PM (#25001820)

It's worth noting that the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE was Jetbrains' first and it is written in Java. A few years later they invented Kotlin with a focus on strong IDE support. The language was designed from the beginning with tooling in mind.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by pvorb on Thursday November 05, 2020 @04:16PM (#25002063)

And still I feel that tooling for Kotlin lacks behind the tooling for Java (but still far superior to many other languages).

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