.wsl-emacs.d VS jdee

I've been using Emacs for Java development for quite some time. Here's my configuration. The 3 sections you'll be interested in are lsp-mode, lsp-ui, and lsp-java.

https://github.com/ianpan870102/.wsl-emacs.d/blob/0864cd7c4ef137e3517c9bab12ca71c9b4fd2c36/init.el#L543

Haha, here’s my config, feel free to ‘steal’ as much as u want: https://github.com/ianpan870102/.wsl-emacs.d

Yup, this is my personal config, and this is the beginner-friendly starter pack ("distro") I'm maintaining

I'm using neotree with some customizations. Here's my config if you're interested: ianpan870102/.wsl-emacs.d: My personal Emacs configuration when I'm on Windows 10 + WSL (Ubuntu 20.04) (github.com)

I think Emacs is great for programming. It has modes for almost every programming language. For LaTeX mode the AUCTeX package is incredibly useful. Besides LaTeX the languages I most often write code in are bash, Java, Tcl, troff, Octave, R, Clojure, Objective-C, and Scheme. Emacs has good modes for all those (in particular JDEE is what I use for Java). There are auto-completion packages for Emacs, though typically I use those only for the few times I write C or C++. Emacs also integrates well with most version control software.

I'm still using jdee. Because of the updates to how JDK after Java 8 locates core classes, I had to make an update to the jdee server backend that is used for things like finding import class names. Once I did that I'm able to use it with Java 8 on up. I believe that the github repo fo the server now has the same updates.