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Yeah, this is very language dependent. Trying Emacs with Java is pure pain, even if you love Emacs.

Like most open source things, the quality of support maps closely to the density of users who are trying to accomplish something similar. This is why Emacs has fantastic support for languages like JS and Ruby, and massively subpar support for Java and C#.



I’ve been using Emacs for Java dev for a year now using LSP and it’s been great.




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