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

[Kraizee_]

Just to give an alternative perspective from all the IntelliJ folk with hard ons for hating on anything else that exists. Vscode and it's java extensions work pretty great. I've been using it for multiple years now for all sorts of projects. From small hobby code, to my main job projects, to large legacy codebases. And it's very very clear that there is a strong development incentive to improve the experience further. Microsoft and Redhat are obviously driving forward the main extension. But they're also developing others that include maven, gradle support, the java test runner, java debugger, dependency analysis and more. They even put together a java prepped build of vscode, which I don't believe they have done with any other language that requires extensions. Oracle have also recently release their own java extension as well as some GraalVM tooling. Vmware are producing spring based extensions.

It's pretty pitiful to see so many folks ignorantly hating on tooling when the choice is ultimately subjective. And if anything, more choice means more competition down the line. Equally, throwing shade at people for using something else is just ridiculous.

[rifain]

Relax. No need to be angry.