intellij-community VS kotlin-vim

For the backend (Java / Spring Boot): Download IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition for free from https://jetbrains.com/idea

Now we move on to the award podium. The bronze medalist has been found in IntelliJ IDEA. Look at the code fragment:

Do you really think so? Have you ever explored the source of something like:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

I know, both proprietary and enterprise, right? https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/20... (I would also link to the Apache 2 copy of PyCharm but it wouldn't matter to folks who just enjoy shitting on professional tools)

Their Apache 2 releases are ferociously strong, too: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community#readme (PyCharm is built from the python directory, as is the Python plugin if you prefer it)

I don't think it's available in a standalone repo but it IS available as a standalone library, IntelliJ's FernFlower decompiler is the gold standard https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/... https://www.jetbrains.com/intellij-repository/releases

I guess there's some history there that I'm not familiar with because JBoss also has a FernFlower decompiler library https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jboss.windup.decompil...

This might not help you, but it is actually a plugin so there's a very small chance with enough determination you could get it to run outside the IDE https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/idea/25...

The follow-on [rhetorical] question is what value it provides to you outside of its integration with the IDE (e.g. click to open, it being integrated right into the window of your editor, etc)

The real-world example from IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition:

kotlin-vim is a reasonably popular plugin that provides syntax highlighting, among other functionalities. This enables highlighting by providing Vim a file of regex based Kotlin grammar. Once installed, it should enable syntax highlighting without further configuration.

I saw a post here about 7 years ago asking this same question, and wondering if there is any updated guidance. I'm a Vim user, and I see kotlin-vim. Is this what everybody is using? Or is there a better experience elsewhere (e.g. neovim)? Thanks!

vim-kotlin You can try this one.

coc plugin that I have implemented in my vim configuration has language servers for both java and kotlin and they are very good from what I hear. I use coc language servers for web development and I find it very nice. As for syntax and indentation of kotlin there is this plugin that takes care of that. Same goes for C#. There is also the 'youcompleteme' plugin which is a larger download than coc but its more complete.