Visual Studio Code: Java, XML and Quarkus

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,

Fred Bricon on twitter: @fbricon and @VSCodeJava