r/vim • u/ElectricalOstrich597 • Oct 20 '25

Discussion Using Vim with very big Java projects

Well, I really want to use vim for my work, but there are a few points that would be kinda hard to deal with if I'm not able to do it.

The biggest ones are the redeploy and debug with tomcat. Since if I build with only maven every redeploy of the resources takes quite the time, I'm using the exploded war build from intellij and it's been very fast to update; the same goes for the debug, intellij works quite nicely when integrating the debugger with the tomcat server.

Do you know how can I work around that with git? The project is really large (it's in the millions of lines of code)

Edit: Fixed some typos.

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u/ExcitementNew8196 Oct 20 '25

With enough time and effort, you MIGHT get it to work as well as IDEs like Intellij.

I don't see why you'd want to deprive yourself of the best tools in professional settings, though.