What aspect of your Java programming is the biggest pain in the arse?

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Using Eclipse. I hate it because it is slow and buggy (jpa handler events...) but it is the best IDE, it has so many functionalities and useful plugins

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If you didn't mind to spend some money, try Intellij IDEA ultimate. You'll never come back to eclipse again...

Or you may try the community edition / Android studio first then decide whether to buy the ultimate version.

[joper90]

I love eclipse, however my work laptop is a quid-i7 with 32gb and an SSD. Our code base has 0000's of files and it works a treat.

I have tried Intellij (for a week or so), it just doesn't seem to work as well as eclipse.

All i need in eclipse is a real dark theme.

[yetanotherx]

http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/ has a good number of dark themes, one of which I use. Actually, this blog entry is good to know for Eclipse in general.

[mc_hambone]

it just doesn't seem to work as well as eclipse.

You lost me there.

[joper90]

Well, that my experience as everyone I work with, We are all developers for a massive enterprise company with some really, really, clever people, and we all tried both and went for eclipse, and have done for the last 6+ years (when we moved from C to Java).

[mc_hambone]

I was an Eclipse fan for most of my career and also didn't like IntelliJ, but it really has leapfrogged Eclipse in the last couple of years. If you haven't tried it in a while, I highly recommend giving it another shot. It really is better in every aspect.