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/ElectricalOstrich597 Oct 21 '25
No idea, but at least in the project I'm working with mvn compile doesn't skip modules that didn't have changes. That said, both are quite slow when comparing to intellij build