An airhacks.fm conversation with Fred Bricon (@fbricon) about:

Amstrad CPC X1120 for gaming,

a material science degree,

web programming over C,

finite element simulations,

the solid under stress,

sorting blankets at the army,

COBOL training,

buildings portals with JSP templates,

Visual Basic,

WebSphere frontend with COBOL backend,

CI/CD with Cruise Control,

Apache Ant for automation,

the Eclipse-based WSAD,

terrible Eclipse support for Apache Maven 2,

deploying WARs to JBoss,

support for Maven and Java EE didn't exist,

working on m2e eclipse project,

starting to work on JBoss Tools,

Eclipse Q4E,

WAR overlays in Eclipse,

OpenShift IDEs tooling,

starting to work with Visual Studio Code for Java,

VSC language server protocol (lsp),

Gorkem Ercan started the exploration for VSC for Java,

building language server with headless Eclipse process in 2016,

Microsoft wanted to make Visual Studio Code a great Java experience,

JDTLS Java Development Tools Language Server,

working on XML extension for VSC,

Quarkus Tools for Visual Studio Code,

VSC Quarkus Extension will come with MicroProfile and Quarkus specific support,

IBM contributes to Quarkus / MicroProfile language server,

VSC MicroProfile support is going to be independently installable,

Eclipse plugin installation process is painfully slow,

two releases of VSC a month,