Of course you can use Java with an editor like Vim or Emacs for simple projects but I would advise to use an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA for bigger projects, e.g. for its support for refactoring. As a statically typed language the benefit of an IDE will be much better than for Python or JavaScript. The same is true for Rust. An IDE helped me to get much more productive because it can show the inferred types without invoking the compiler all the times.