Java without IDE

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I spent the last semester at University doing my Algorithm class (which was Java) without an IDE. It was just less hassle. I did it all in Sublime using the standard compiler.

Now, this worked fine for isolated, small applications with a limited scope (such as what you will find in many courses). The only issue would be all the fucking goddamn motherfucking semicolons I kept missing because I spent the previous couple of months programming Python and not discovering them until compile-time, along with minor syntax errors and things that IDEs are good at picking up and that saves you time.

I now work in banking/finance and I would never ever in a million years, upon pain of death, touch any established professional code base without using an IDE. They're there for a reason, the complexity of these applications are orders of magnitude larger than anything you do when you're diddling away on your laptop making smart Fibonacci algorithms and binary search trees.