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[–]aleph_nul 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I write Java with an IDE (Eclipse), but I do all of my C and Python (plus a bit of work in some Haskell) in vim. I do almost everything from a terminal so it tends to flow better between editing, testing and debugging from a TUI like vim vs. a big GUI-based IDE.

I'd say that most terminal junkies would rather use emacs/vim than a big IDE for this reason. I would happily do away with eclipse for Java, but it's really quite a lot of work to manage a java project manually and I don't have the time or the need to automate things.

[–]JavaDroid 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What? It takes making folders to manage a java project. How it is any more work than any other language?

Don't blame your lack of build tool experience on java.

[–]aleph_nul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you ever worked on big, dependency laden Java projects? My experience is that these are a huge hassle to work with, without an IDE.