On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 17:54 -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: [...] > I'm an Emacs guy too, but Eclipse blows Emacs out of the water when it > comes to programming in Java.
No-one has mentioned NetBeans (which does use Ant, Maven or Gradle) to manage build) or IntelliJ IDEA (which although "pay for", many people do because it is very good -- it has built in compilation, but can also use Gradle, Maven, Ant, or Leiningen for build) as well as Eclipse (which has built in compilation or can use Gradle, Maven or Ant for build). I am fundamentally an Emacs + Bash person, but these IDEs are getting to the stage where they are now doing things that make them usable. Actually for anything to do with Java ME or Android the IDEs are nigh on essential due to the connection to the simulators. They all take an age to start, they all take far too much memory (if you haven't got >8GB don't think of starting all three) and they are slow at times. The speed issue on typing is because of all the type checking, immediate parsing and manual checking that goes on. Despite the slow typing, I value the popup manual stuff -- though you have to set the timing right or it gets immensely annoying. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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