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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by tyingq on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:01PM (#25812313)
To me, it depends on the language. An IDE helps a lot with verbose languages that have somewhat complicated environments or runtimes. Like Java. I can fly with VIM and Perl though.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by ashtonkem on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:03PM (#25812341)
Yeah, this is very language dependent. Trying Emacs with Java is pure pain, even if you love Emacs.

Like most open source things, the quality of support maps closely to the density of users who are trying to accomplish something similar. This is why Emacs has fantastic support for languages like JS and Ruby, and massively subpar support for Java and C#.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by cle on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:56PM (#25814870)
I’ve been using Emacs for Java dev for a year now using LSP and it’s been great.
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