I like to use Java for small programming tasks. Without ceremony. Without a src/main/java directory tree. It works great with modern Java and VS Code. VS Code isn’t a complete IDE, but it relies on the Language Server Protocol (LSP) to talk to the Eclipse LSP server. Of course, VS Code is unremarkable as a text editor. It’s no Emacs. But the combination of Emacs, LSP, and Java can be a science project. After more than a year of fussing with it on and off, I finally got them to work togeth...
