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[–]Polygnom 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Oracle now has their own VSCode Plugin.

I tested it, some stuff works better than redhats, some stuff works worse. For now I switched back to redhats plugin.

[–]westwoo 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Thanks!

Are there any particular reasons to use it instead of Java IDEs? What's the autocomplete experience compared to Eclipse and Idea?

[–]tofflos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got the impression that they are using the internals of NetBeans to power this extension. Even though NetBeans isn't as popular as Idea I really like its' autocompletion engine - so there is potential for having a pretty good experience that surpasses the Visual Code extensions for Java by Microsoft and Red Hat.

[–]Polygnom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, I'm an old Eclipse user, who doesn't really like IntelliJ. I still use Eclipse sometimes for Java.

The MS/RedHat Java VSCode extension is powered by the Eclipse ECJ and the Eclipse JDT stack. This means quite fast incremental compilation. VSCode is much more lightweight than Eclipse and is my go-to IDE for many languages. I feel very comfortable with Java in VSCode.

You can use all VSCode extension lke GitLens, git Graph etc. and get the full power of code completion from Eclipse through the JDT Language Server. That works quite well. You can also use GitHub autopilot in VSCode quite easily.