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Not like C/C++ applications go easy on memory these days, either. When GUI libraries include CSS and JavaScript interpreters, suddenly MFC and Motif look less bloaty…

Never mind Java editors/IDE, which are pretty much standard these days.

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The only "standard" full-fledged IDEs I can think of that are Java are IntelliJ and Eclipse. Visual Studio (WPF), Xcode (Cocoa), Qt Creator (Qt), KDevelop (KDE Frameworks/Qt), GTK Builder (GTK) are all built with their platform's native toolkit.

Concerning text editors, I think that field is split between Electron-based, Sublime and terminal-based editors. I can't picture users writing in Java editors in 2018.

> Concerning text editors, I think that field is split between Electron-based, Sublime and terminal-based editors

There is still the whole family of Scintilla-based editors out there. I use Notepad++ and Geany all the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)

Let me clarify that, with "standard" I didn't mean exclusive, just that running a Java IDE ain't exactly exotic or weird. IntelliJ and its variants alone are a good share of the market.

Pycharm, Webstorm, Goland and Intellij, are some of the most used IDEs, all Java based.

That's a little disingenuous because they're all JetBrains IDEs and thus are just variations of IntelliJ

Those are all basically the exact same application

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