Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
by dehrmann on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:07PM
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Something Java accidentally did was be impossible to code without an IDE, in part because of its type system. People wrote really good IDEs for it, aided by the type system. At some point, they realized they could use what they learned and adapt the IDE to other languages.
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At least most of our java program is written by us. Compared to visual studio (not vs code) where a wizard will generate thousands of lines of config no one dares to touch again or know how to modify.
Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
by doctor_eval on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:17PM
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It wasn’t accidental. JavaBeans were explicitly designed for “wiring up”
UIs in IDEs and are the reason the horrible getters/setters are ubiquitous in Java.
It’s also why NetBeans was a part of Java for so long (is it still?)
The main reason I started using IDEs was automatic imports. Funnily enough, when I went from VSCode to GoLand, one of the things I miss is the import management, which is better in VSCode. But for everything else, especially refactoring, GoLand is better.