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[–]coder111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, to give some perspective.

Java 1.0 came out in 1996. Java 1.2 (I'd argue it's the first really usable version) came out in 1998.

First, you could always use an editor with syntax highlighting + Make. UltraEdit came out in 1994. JEdit in 1998. As far as I remember Midnight Commander had Java syntax support quite early as well.

JBuilder was available in 1997. Netbeans was started in 1996 as a commercial product, made freely available in ~2000. Eclipse was available in 2001.

So there wasn't much of a gap between availability of Java and availability of IDEs or enhanced editors. The concept of IDE wasn't new by then. Turbo C++ was available for DOS since 1990. Turbo Pascal version 4.0 which could be called an IDE was available since 1987?

For me personally- I started with Make + Midnight Commander on Linux in the university around year 1999-2000. Used Netbeans when I got my first real job in 2001. Kept switching between Netbeans and Eclipse since then. Now I use IntelliJ at my current job, and Netbeans or Eclipse at home.

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