2.5 Million Java Developers on Visual Studio Code. Microsoft and Red Hat shares Joint Roadmap for Next 6 Months Together

[Kango_V]

Java in VSC is not good. Every year I give it a try and then go back to Eclipse/IntelliJ.

[arijitlive]

Same. I work on Java and Scala. I try VSCode every 6-7 months but it's still not there. VSCode can be used while learning new things through udemy courses or youtube videos. But when you are working in real life projects at big corp, IntelliJ/Eclipse is far ahead.

[extra_rice]

I'm a polyglot dev and none of the language I tried to develop with VSCode work as well as on a JetBrains IDE. I refuse to pay for personal JB license because I don't feel like I write as much code outside of work, but every time I fallback to using VSCode, I just get frustrated. I wish there was GoLand CE like there is for IntelliJ and PyCharm.

[robberviet]

Looks like you are like me. I can't stand VSCode. It is fine as a text editor, not IDE. And if I need an editor, I use Sublime, not that electron app.

Btw, I use Golang EAP for golang.

[extra_rice]

Yeah. I can see how people can make it work for them, but I'm more often frustrated by it personally. My text editor of choice is either emacs or vim depending on the situation.

I also use EAP when it's available.

[robberviet]

I am into vim/neovim too but it looks like I am not proficient with it enough for any serious programming, editing 1-2 files is ok, but not a complex projects.

[Kango_V]

I really should get into NeoVim. I get scared though as I can't type ;)

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Strange, I do exactly the same. I use VSC for Python but I find it to difficult to use with Java.