Forgot the JetBrains mentioned here On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:55 PM Evgeniy Ginzburg <nad....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Josh. > I'll try to answer the question that you not really asked. > > The problem with lightweight editors (best ones are variants of Vim or > Emacs) that making them work "good" for Java coding is a very non-trivial > task. > Especially if you want any debugging, code navigation and/or snippets. > (Also if anybody can point me to a good configuration example for > Java/Scala in Vim or Emacs I'll be eternally grateful.) > > C/C++ is easier in this case. > Still, making ctags(or equivalent) and GDB to work under Vim or Emacs is > not the 5 minutes task. > And one will need to integrate some kind of build system make, cmake, > etc... > Whoever is going to do this will need to know exactly what he wants, and > this is not expected from the first year student. > > And also I assume that you'd prefer a solution that "Just works (TM)". > > Then your choices are limited to full-fledged IDEs, and those are not in > any way lightweight. > From my point of view, Netbeans is just a little bit lighter than Eclipse > on resources, but this is just a matter of personal taste. > > Best regards Evgeniy. > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:53 AM Josh Roden <joshro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> Happy Purim! >> We're looking for a Linux editor for first year CS students >> that is light on resources. >> Thanks, >> Josh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > -- > So long, and thanks for all the fish. > -- So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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