The idea sorta reminds me of this bus, just in a different area.
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I would very much like to see the or an SDK be the de-facto standard. Spix sounds ambitious and a kind of ideology. I will have to look at it to opinionate any further. It would be really nice to have a solid setup.
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You left off javasabr Space Shift Editor.
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Iām old school. I still use a programmerās editor and the command line. Iāve used various versions of IDEs over the years and they all eventually boil down to the same thing: I feel like Iām typing in mud because of all of the hooks they put on my typing. If you are used to having this be a non-issue, like zero latency, donāt even think about it, for 25-30 years, typing in an IDE is really painful.
āYou could turn off the options and then it would be faster!ā
Yes, and then I have basically a programmerās editor with refactoring support.
And on refactoring, Iāve found that the projects that I actually really could use that support have so many classes and multi-projects, etc. that it takes over an hour just to index it so that the really cool stuff works. Then Iām inundated with a sea of stuff that is not so easily searchable. It felt like Intelli-J has the best support here but that was exactly my experience. 2 hours to index all of the projects and then another 2 hours to sift through the results for actionable information.
So, I use a programmerās editor (which could launch things like gradle) but then keep several command line windows open in different projects. Edit this file in Sim-math, start the build there, flip back to the editor to edit some other file, recompile that project, fix the sim-math release notes and start a release, flip back to the editor and keep working on something elseā¦ and so on. All the time being able to see all cascading command line windowsā left margins to track the progress of all of them.
It just fits my style better and to me certainly makes it easier to work on half-a-dozen projects at once.
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Itās nice to see the result of the poll so far. The IDEs are actually almost on par (well, netbeans is a bit ahead since the sdk is also netbeans ).
That comfort me in the idea that the gradle way and a sdk agnostic of any IDE is the way to go.
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Using Netbeans for Java and C++.
I compile, run and debug my server software on a remote host with GCC/GDB over SSH. Netbeans was the only IDE that could do that without many hassles (back then).
Also works really nice for running stuff on a Raspberry Pi.
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I really like how inspections and autocomplete work in the IntelliJ IDEA 
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To everyone saying that they only use Idea because they got a free license, or saying that they donāt because it costs money: there is a free version that is more than sufficient for JME. The paid version adds support for things like Java EE. The full details are here.
Also, I would like to note that I am not saying āIdea is best, everyone should use it!ā I am simply correcting what I am seeing as a somewhat common misconception here.
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I didnāt realized Java was in the community version 
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Eclipse 
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