[tylerchilds]

Going to be honest

Absolutely shocked Java wasn’t in the terminal

I know I don’t use it, but wow.

Honestly, super impressed that that they’ve got the traction they do without it but, I think the takeaway is that Java developers like having everything in the IDE— so I’d imagine agentic in the ide will yield higher returns than switching modalities

[maxandersen]

There is already a lot of Java in agentic systems and IDE integrations — but that alone won’t break the stereotype.

The real blocker isn’t capability, it’s perception: many people stop before even trying Java in the terminal. All while Python/JS are seeing a surge in terminal tooling, despite similar (or worse) startup cost, dependency sprawl, and multi-GB installs — and the reaction there is often “this is fine, let’s ship and use.”

Until Java is visibly normal in the terminal, agentic features in IDEs won’t change that mental model.