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0 pointsepiccoleman10mo ago0 comments

It's pretty tough to give up the good things that Jetbrains IDEs can bring, when they exist for a given lang. The obvious example is Java - IntelliJ is just leaps and bounds better than whatever stack of plugins you need in VSCode (or Cursor).

This isn't a great solution, but in cases where I've wanted to try out Cursor on a Java code base, I just open the project in both IDEs. I'll do AI-based edits with Cursor, and if I need to go clean them up or, you know, write my own code, I'll just switch over to IntelliJ.

Again, that's not the smoothest solution, but the vast majority of my work lately has been in Javascript, so for the occasional dip into Java-land, "dual-wielding" IDEs has been workable enough.

Cursor/Code handle JS codebases just fine - Webstorm is a little better maybe, but not the "leaps and bounds" difference between Code and IntelliJ - so for JS, I just live in Cursor these days.

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WD-4210mo ago

Java is the original “it needs an ide” language. Always has been. If you’re not using jetbrains, eclipse, or whatever other monstrosity to write Java you’re going to have a bad time. I wouldn’t consider this a mark against Zed, I’d wager very few people write Java it.

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0 pointsepiccoleman10mo ago0 comments

Again, that's not the smoothest solution, but the vast majority of my work lately has been in Javascript, so for the occasional dip into Java-land, "dual-wielding" IDEs has been workable enough.

Cursor/Code handle JS codebases just fine - Webstorm is a little better maybe, but not the "leaps and bounds" difference between Code and IntelliJ - so for JS, I just live in Cursor these days.

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WD-4210mo ago

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