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		Kwpolska on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New E... What does the company that owns Java offer? Their Java IDE is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDeveloper and nobody uses that. The latest release came out in 2019. Everyone is using IntelliJ IDEA or perhaps Eclipse. What does the Python core community offer? IDLE is ugly, is barely an IDE, and didn’t have line numbers until a few years ago. Everyone is using PyCharm or VSCode.

pjmlp on April 13, 2023 | [–]

IBM also makes Java, it offers Eclipse.

Sun made Java, it offered Netbeans.

As for the Python community, no one expects great tooling from FOSS languages, as you mention everyone is using tooling from two big corporations.

MaxBarraclough on April 12, 2023 | [–]

NetBeans is also still going, although I don't think it has many users.

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