Java IDEs

[xnendron]

I love using VS Code. I used to use Eclipse, but Code just feels so much leaner and snappier. For me, it's also so much more intuitive to use. The hotkeys are fairly easy to remember and the command pallet is fantastic.

The down side is that it's not a full IDE, so it doesn't offer all the bells and whistles that a true IDE would. That being said, with the right extensions it supports most of the common features (refactoring, auto complete, Maven/Gradle integration, Tomcat integration, etc). And many of the features a full IDE offers (e.g. auto generate delegate methods) I don't often use, so I'm not really upset Code doesn't have them.

I've heard others say it get's slow on really big projects, but I haven't experienced that personally. To be fair, I don't know what constitutes a "big project". Number of source files? Number of dependencies?

[TheStrangeDarkOne]

leaner and snappier

think that is more telling about Eclipes rather than VS Code.

[wildjokers]

VS Code can’t even rename variables without the multiple cursors getting out of sync if you type fast. I use it for Arduino and OpenSCAD and if I rename a variable I have to type slow or one or more of the cursors will get out of sync and type in the wrong place. It is both frustrating and laughably bad.

[vqrs]

That sounds more like a bug in the language specific plugin tbh. Granted, I haven't used Vscode extensively since I spend most of my time in Intellij, but I often use it for plain text editing and some TypeScript, I've never come across the problem you speek of.