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Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

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253 points chhum | 1 comments | 16 May 25 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.287s | source
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pjmlp ◴[17 May 25 06:40 UTC] No.44012460[source]▶
> Gosling primarily uses the NetBeans IDE for development, praising its open source, Apache-licensed nature and dedicated community. He expresses frustration with developers who cling to outdated tools: “The thing that drives me nuts the most are people who are madly grasping the ’80s or the ’70s — people who still want to use Vi, which was high-tech in the ’70s.”

From one of the key developers in the Emacs history, and genesis.

He moved on, others keep trying to live in the past.

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lycopodiopsida ◴[17 May 25 07:37 UTC] No.44012696[source]▶
Modern stacks (as in go and rust) are largely editor agnostic - it is Gosling who lives in the past, thinking that an IDE is still required(and a very weak one, in case of abandoned Netbeans). One of the reasons, btw, why I would take Go over Java in a heartbeat.
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1. vips7L ◴[17 May 25 12:05 UTC] No.44013690[source]▶
You don’t need an IDE for Java either. You can use vscode or neovim, the language server will work just fine. I’ve done both, but eventually moved back to idea (with ideavim).