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6 sources> I’ll preface this by saying that if Neovim isn’t your primary editor, you should first try an IDE specifically for Java."
Seconded.
As someone who has spent a lot of time configuring editors, but doesn't enjoy it quite as much as he used to, I gave Java on Neovim a shot this summer.
There are two main routes to go - both of which are described in the article. Either install it yourself, "You read the friendly manual", or use someone else's installer, "You use a distro".
My problem with someone else's installer is that I don't understand what it's doing, which in turn gives me the feeling that it's pulling in the kitchen sink, which is exactly the feeling I hoped to avoid by not using my regular IDE.
My problem with installing it myself is that I have to learn the entire ecosystem including, but not limited to, learning how to use Neovim
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for more than editing a simple text file, learning the Lua scripting language, learning where Neovim keeps its' configuration files and what to put in them, curating a set of plugins for highlighting, launching code, debugging, etc., figuring out how to configure those plugins for Neovim and finally how to make those plugins play nice together.
In the end it just wasn't for me but if Neovim is your primary editor it might be for you.
> Java has one LSP option for Neovim, and that’s JDTLS (Java Development Tools Language Server) by Eclipse.
Just wanted to mention that there is another LSP for Java, https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/java/java.lsp..., but I don't know if anyone has gotten it to work with Neovim.
This page doesn't give any details about what's changed in this release.
More informative page: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases/tag/20
In Netbeans 20 ReleasedThere's been a lot of cosmetic improvements in NetBeans in the last few releases, including this latest one.
In particular, a while back the default look & feel was switched to FlatLAF ( https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/ ), and before that again we did a lot of work to support HiDPI and Retina screens ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%... ). In NetBeans 15 we did a series of tweaks to further improve the look of the UI (e.g. https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4286 ).
In Apache NetBeans 15Yeah, at least according to the repo it seems they now delegate to the ccls language server and just do syntax highlighting via the textmate plist grammars that are so commonly paired with language servers
* https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite
* https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite...
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