[k0tan32]

Thanks for sharing your experience.

It's a fair note about tooling in general, I started with the code editing because it's the first thing before you can taste and judge the rest.

I think my frustration comes from the fact that in most other ecosystem I can use the tools I like, but in Java I have to use things like Intellij.

Intellij CE may be open source, but it is entirely owned by a private business whose primary goal is to sell their product - which affects how well are the integrated, open to accept community feedback, etc.

[javanonymous]

There are several open source tools for Java (Eclipse, Visual Studio plugins, Netbeans and others).

The reason I don't use them is not because they are bad, but because IntelliJ is so much better.

I even use IntelliJ Ultimate for non Java code like React, even though Visual Studio Code seems to be de-facto standard for React developers and guides.