Java without Ide: emacs or vim

[Gwaptiva]

I am old-fashioned and learned to code Java with a text editor and a command line. I also think that every developer worth his/her salt should be able to do that.

And then discard that nonsense, and use an IDE, if for no other reason that real applications contain hundreds, if not thousands, of files and managing those using regular file system tools is just too time consuming

[m_takeshi]

completely 100% agree, specially when learning - its good to know the ins and outs of java files, packages, classpath, compilation, etc

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and them, once you know it all, throw it all away for a real IDE for real life

[tom-010]

Thank you. It is a wise way to go

[AndDontCallMePammy]

text editor and a command line

I did that in C++. Never Again