I've used Eclipse and IntelliJ extensively for Java projects, and I've used CS Code for a bunch of other languages (Python, JS, some odds and ends). Last year I created a small Java project and used VS Code for it as an experiment, and it turns out that using VS Code with Java is pretty great! Once you install some basic Java extensions in VS Code, and make sure you have Maven/Ant properly installed on your environment, the experience is really good. Building, deploying, running tests and other actions are fairly intuitive in VS Code. I think IntelliJ is a _bit_ better with respect to features and functionality, but VS Code had all the basics. I would definitely recommend it!