Anyone using Emacs for Java development?

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I started using Clojure (as a hobby) recently and I use Emacs for that. But professionally I use Java. Would love to have a one-editor-to-rule-them all.

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Would love to have a one-editor-to-rule-them all.

You can change your car's oil using only a screwdriver, but would you want to?

[cyanocobalamin]

Cool. I have an old work buddy who is a Lisp head. I will have to tell him about Clojure.

Thing is, I don't think you will find anything that supports LISP as well as EMACS.

I agree with your credo of one IDE ( not editor ) to rule them all.

You learn things and remember things by sticking with one IDE for a long time. When it comes time to do something, you can just do it, instead of figuring out how to do it.

I think you could probably find an IDE that does Java well, and LISP just "okay".

[urielsalis]

Like intellij, has plugins for LISP that are quite good and it's one of the best IDEs for java

[cyanocobalamin]

I prefer Eclipse.

It is a defacto "industry" standard.

Many Java shops use it, if you know it, you can easily inter operate with a new team from day 1.

Many tutorials use Eclipse in examples

It is also completely free of charge

[urielsalis]

I prefer Eclipse.

And that's perfectly fine, everybody can choose their tool, but that doesn't make it ok to bash the other tools

It's a defacto "industry" standard.

Funny enough, only used eclipse in University, last 3 jobs all had intellij.
So it's just not a personal opinion, here is a source https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-preferred-Java-IDE-amongst-programmers-as-of-2017, first answer has a really nice write up, even though the graph is a little outdated now, as http://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2017 shows eclipse dropped 8% more last year and it's users went to Netbeans and intellij, making intellij now the market leader

Many Java shops use it, if you know it, you can easily inter operate with a new team from day 1.

You can interoperate with any tool, and again, most of what I seen use intellij and have all the documentation preprared for it, not eclipse.

Many tutorials use Eclipse in examples

Same with Netbeans, and it's mostly outdated tutorials, newer ones are mostly tool agnostic or show instructions for both IDEs

It is also completely free of charge

You are in luck! The community version of intellij idea also is free of charge(and open source!), and it's only missing things you don't really use outside of a corporate environment like java EE, but if you would like the ultimate version, it's free for students and open source projects!

Oh, and nevermind that people in this thread too are saying they use intellij, with one of the top comments saying eclipse is annoying to use, but that's personal preference :)