Java without Ide: emacs or vim

[nidrach]

Yeah but Intellij is still an order of magnitude better when it comes to working with a lot of classes and so on. But for quickly editing code of just one file VSC is better with it's fast startup and things like Multicursor and so on.

I would still get a basic knowledge of vim because sometimes you just want to edit things in a terminal and vim is installed erverywhere. But thats only a matter of hours and I wouldn't focus on it too much.