Re:I Regret Ever Open Sourcing Java – Jill Malony Ratkevic
by jfengel on Thursday November 14, 2024 @09:40AM
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That's how I did Java for the first 10 years or so. I'd switch back and forth with emacs, depending on the editing task.
Eclipse finally came out with a decent debugger, and so I switched to an IDE. Java-the-language has since leaned heavily into IDEs; a lot of tedious-but-useful tasks (like strong typing) are significantly easier that way.
I'll still use vi for small edits, and either vi or emacs when I want to do a particular kind of search-and-replace that's better handled by them.
Eclipse finally came out with a decent debugger, and so I switched to an IDE. Java-the-language has since leaned heavily into IDEs; a lot of tedious-but-useful tasks (like strong typing) are significantly easier that way.
I'll still use vi for small edits, and either vi or emacs when I want to do a particular kind of search-and-replace that's better handled by them.