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by rie_t
1374 days ago
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I remember having to use BlueJ at University... I found that it makes programming so much harder. New window for every file, no ctrl+click following references, no auto-formatter, no easy sidebar tree of files... I ended up using vscode and just copying the files into BlueJ before submitting my assignments. |
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There's something to be said for a very minimal "just get shit done" code editor. I think Thonny[1] falls perfectly in this line though in terms of useful features vs IDE-completeness. It has most of the quality of life improvements you're talking about here but is otherwise an advanced text editor with code highlighting.
I used to nearly exclusively write my code that way actually, using EditPlus and then later Notepad++, both with plugins for syntax and formatting. I found it to be surprisingly productive. Then again, I suspect there's a large overlap between people who are like me and will find it productive and those who like all those distraction-free writing applications out there.
> I ended up using vscode and just copying the files into BlueJ before submitting my assignments.
This I'm curious about. Why would you need to do this? Does BlueJ do something specific with the application that VSCode can't?
[1]: https://thonny.org/