Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Mario Torre]

But I was trying to be sarcastic, there is indeed a serious problem, most
of us are not so much affected because everyone ends with their custom
solution that works somehow, but your point is absolutely correct, the
barriers to enter are unnecessarily high here.

On Thu 23. Nov 2017 at 10:36, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 22/11/17 19:04, Mario Torre wrote:
> > 2017-11-22 18:54 GMT+01:00 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> >> I remember back in the '80s the tool vendors were making fun of us folk
> who
> >> used "grep" as their code understanding tool.  Now 30 years later, I
> still
> >> live in Emacs with recursive grep being my main way of navigating the
> >> sources.  It's tough because openjdk's java sources may be ahead of IDE
> >> language support, and the sources also come with lots of hard-to-grok
> C++
> >> and Makefiles.
> >
> > The irony is not lost on me that is Andrew that is asking how to
> > configure an IDE to work on Java :)
>
> Irony?  There's nothing ironic about it, it's a complete mess.  All that
> I need is a debugger, and there seems to be no way to get one without all
> of the associated baggage that comes along with an IDE.
>
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