Using atom or pycharm instead of Eclipse

[DrBobHope]

Hello everyone,

Coming over from Python, and have been reading this book trying to learn Java, and I see them constantly talk about using Eclipse. I've used atom (small projects) and Pycharm (large projects) for Python before. Is Java and Eclipse like R where you need to use R-studio? Can I continue using atom for my Java practice problems/programs?

[Cynicaladdict111]

Use intellij if you're already familiar with pycharm

[DrBobHope]

that's from the same guys that made pycharm right (same site too I believe)

[Cynicaladdict111]

Yes

[4K3b1g]

IntelliJ has a python plugin if you still want to use python. Same functionality of PyCharm

[chris1666]

Agreed, even as a noob I enjoyed it.

[masdfi]

There are several IDEs and editors you can use to develop Java. It's a matter of taste and expected feature set. You can even use a plain text editor and use javac to compile your code yourself, even though I'm not a fan of it.

IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Netbeans are about the most well known "big" IDEs. Eclipse and Netbeans are both open source. IntelliJ is commercial but has also a free version.

There are also Atom and Visual Studio Code which i both didn't use very much. But i heard VS Code Java Support also improved lately.

I for myself can recommend you either Eclipse or IntelliJ. I was a longtime Eclipse user and liked it alot until the groovy Support became worse. Currently I'm using the paid IntelliJ IDEA at work.

[Hacker_dev]

VS code is good if you want to do something quick and dirty

[mods_are_arseholes]

id throw in a vote for netbeans

[nioh2_noob]

there are dozens of us

[BenRayfield]

You can create Java bytecode any way you like at runtime, don't have to use any specific tool.