Unfortunately I’m not in the path of totality but I am pretty close
Alt: A picture of the (almost but not totally covered) eclipse
I was taught coding using IDEs. After I discovered that they aren’t even necessary for debuging and compiling, I said “What’s the point?” And I’ve just been using text editors ever since.
Everyone I know switched to IntelliJ though I’d still use Eclipse if IntelliJ didn’t exist tbh. IntelliJ is just too good.
It’s not so bad TBH. As in if I couldn’t get IntelliJ on my machine, I’d use it.
I’d go out of my way to install the necessary plugins on vscode before I’d use Eclipse. I can’t even figure out how to open my damn project that I accidentally closed FFS!!
It’s a hot mess. Or it was 10 years when I was last forced to use it.
I remember there was one setting I needed to adjust from time to time. However the menu tree it was in had been removed leaving it a orphaned tree. So you couldn’t get to it through the ui. The only way to get to the setting was to go to a unrelated page in the documentation and click on the goto link in it. That would launch the menu that otherwise didn’t exist. From there you could back up and get into the menu to adjust the setting.
It’s fine. Super flexible platform for any development environment. I’d take it over Notepad++.
Why not use VIM though?
I don’t like having to unplug my computer to exit the IDE. Takes a while and I often lose my changes.
Pro tip: Press Esc, then type
:wwhich means “write” to save the changes, and then unplug the computer and reboot.
You’ve fallen into my trap card, I really just wanted everyone else’s eclipse photos here
Eclipse has its share of problems (and outdated UI and workflows), still I’ll happily use it over IntelliJ w/o hesitation.
Funnily enough, a lot of other (Java)Senior developers who tried both are fine with Eclipse, too.
Besides the astroturfing from IDEA which is really annoying, Eclipse integrates far better with standard build tools and is our last descend Open Source IDE (Netbeans effectively being a zombie at this time).
IDEA is already pushing/forcing their own solutions/build tools/etc. to up sell their shit, once Eclipse is gone, there will be no alternative and IDEA/IntelliJ will start the entshittifaction…
People really forgot what a shit show were the 90s, paying lots of money for commercial IDEs.
