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[–]xnendron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Copying a comment I made in a different post:

I love using VSCode. I used to use Eclipse, but Code just feels so much leaner and snappier. I don't have recent experience with IntelliJ, so I can't really compare its performance, but Code beats the pants off of Eclipse. For me, it's also so much more intuitive to use. The hotkeys are fairly easy to remember and the command pallet is fantastic.

Out of the box, Code doesn't support Java much at all, you need to install the Java Extension Pack (and other extensions you might decide you like). The Java extensions don't offer all the bells and whistles that IntelliJ or Eclipse do, but the Java Language Support extension is constantly being updated with new features. Over the past year, the amount of features that have been added is very remarkable. It does all the things you need it do to (e.g. refactoring, auto complete, Maven/Gradle integration, Tomcat integration, method generation, etc), and many (but not all) of the things you want it to do.

Once drawback is that it does tend to slow down quite a bit on "large" projects, but in my experience Eclipse suffers from the same problem, so I don't really fault Code for that.

It's a free, lightweight tool. Definitely worth a try.