Niels Berglund learns about Visual Studio Code and writing Java in VS Code:
I mentioned above how Maven is a build automation tool for primarily Java projects. There are other build tools as well, but in this post, I use Maven as it is – which I mentioned above – the de-facto standard for Java-based projects.
Above we saw how we installed Maven as well as the VS Code Maven extension, however before we start to use it let us talk a little about Maven archetypes and naming conventions.
If I were in Java day in and day out, I’d probably go with IntelliJ IDEA but for occasional work, I can see VS Code doing well. That’s the interesting use case for Visual Studio Code: with all of the extensions, it’s a really good multi-purpose IDE while still being worse than the “natural” IDE for almost any single language.