| ▲ | ivanjermakov 3 days ago |
| I wonder where Java would be today without superb tooling and smart student programs from JetBrains. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Java has enjoyed powerful IDEs since late 1990's, some of them are even free beer! |
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| ▲ | tsimionescu 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Java world had plenty of student programs without Jet Brains. There is even a student-focused IDE, BlueJ, with plenty of visual representations to help people new to programming get their bearings - and this existed since 1999. |
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| ▲ | jen20 a day ago | parent [-] | | Sadly BlueJ teaches people almost exactly the wrong things about object-oriented programming. |
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| ▲ | Onewildgamer 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Java was thriving during the golden age of Eclipse Foundation and IDE. JetBrains is very much recent. |
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| ▲ | stevoski 3 days ago | parent [-] | | > JetBrains is very much recent. JetBrains is 25 years old, almost as old as Java. | | |
| ▲ | szatkus 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | IntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that. | | |
| ▲ | jen20 a day ago | parent [-] | | It was in heavy use in London investment banks in 2005. Even resharper was commonplace by the following year. |
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| ▲ | TheFreim 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Around 10 years ago Eclipse was still the primary editor in the circles I was in. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Still is on my circles, and at home I have been always a Netbeans fan. I am an IDE guy since Borland products for MS-DOS, yet I was never sold on InteliJ anyway, and Android Studio made me dislike it even further. |
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| ▲ | karmakaze 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I was using Eclipse back then, but indeed Wikipedia says IDEA 1.0 (Jan 2001) predates Eclipse IDE (Nov 2001). NetBeans was bought by Sun in 1999 and opensourced on Jun 2000. |
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