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Discussion on: Moving from Eclipse to VSCode by a Java Developer

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Sam Hall • Edited

I made the switch to VSCode about a year ago for java and never looked back. As I am in and out of different languages frequently, it's nice having a uniform development experience.

Through plugins, VSCode offers a robust development environment without the bulk and overhead. It's also just one less thing I have to have on my machine.

I like the integrated terminal as you mentioned and running maven commands instead of relying on gui tools in eclipse, in my opinion has made me a better developer.

There is also the benefit of developing in a virtual environment. I'm honestly not sure if eclipse has this functionality, but with the VSCode remote ssh plugin you can remote into your virtual machine (vagrant box or what have you), develop through VSCode on the host machine and keep your dev environment isolated.

That's my 2 cents anyway 😁

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Julien Bras

nice feedback thanks ! I will get a look on this remote ssh plugin !