--- title: Much closer to the half. #coffeesoftware #SebastienDeleuze description: An anecdotal observation from Japan: among a small sample of Java developers at various organizations, roughly half were using Visual Studio Code instead of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/much-closer-to-the-half-coffeesoftware-sebastiendeleuze-frqscjcsb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Much closer to the half. #coffeesoftware #SebastienDeleuze | daily.dev og:description: An anecdotal observation from Japan: among a small sample of Java developers at various organizations, roughly half were using Visual Studio Code instead of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/much-closer-to-the-half-coffeesoftware-sebastiendeleuze-frqscjcsb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fRqSCJCSB.png og:image:alt: Much closer to the half. #coffeesoftware #SebastienDeleuze og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Much closer to the half. #coffeesoftware #SebastienDeleuze **[Coffee \+ Software](https://daily.dev/sources/coffee-software)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An anecdotal observation from Japan: among a small sample of Java developers at various organizations, roughly half were using Visual Studio Code instead of IntelliJ IDEA — a notable shift from the typical pattern where the vast majority of JVM developers use IntelliJ. 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