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by lolinder 1037 days ago
It's not so much that you can't do Java without an IDE—Java is verbose in part because it doesn't assume that you have an IDE to give you context—it's that IntelliJ is such a good IDE that it's hard to go back to weaker tooling once you've become comfortable with it.

All my co-workers use VS Code for TypeScript, but I feel crippled when I can't use WebStorm. Not because I can't program without it, but because I'm missing a powerful force multiplier.
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ElectricalUnion 1036 days ago
I used to think that WebStorm was terrible for refactoring; but somehow it's still very far ahead of other editors like vscode, and vscode itself is very far ahead of almost everything else too.
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lolinder 1036 days ago
WebStorm is worse than IntelliJ Java, but that's because TypeScript is much harder to statically analyze. There are fewer safe refactorings in a language that has so much flexibility.
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