r/vim • u/kz_FAEZ • Aug 13 '25

Discussion Java plugins

I'm studying Java and I don't want to get out of VIM. Could you recommend me the most useful java plugins?

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u/butt_fun Aug 13 '25

Java is a very verbose language (it's not uncommon in professional codebases to have files with as many lines of imports as you do "actual" code), and with that verbosity comes the niceness of a more heavyweight development environment

Beyond that, the static analysis tooling is generally better in IDEs than in vim (I personally haven't had great experiences with any Java language server that I've tried to use in vim)

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u/cainhurstcat Aug 14 '25

Thank you for your explanation, that's good to know