Dr Gamma was also one of the fathers of Eclipse and the original lead on the Eclipse Java development tools.
Eclipse has been going on since the early 2000s and six days ago enjoyed the release of Galileo (v3.5). If you've had time to look at recent release, what are your opinions on what Eclipse has become? Has it made any wrong turns? How do you respond to criticisms of "bloat" or "too resource intensive"? Do you see it becoming more than what it is or transforming?
Eclipse is an awesome platform for Java. As good as Netbeans. Over the years I've checked it out and I've never felt the desire to stay with it like I do with Netbeans.
But when it comes to developing in other languages, Eclipse just doesn't cut and Netbeans blows the doors off of it.
Some examples:
When I downloaded the previous version of Galileo, from the menu I installed the plugins for C++. I couldn't get the C++ compiling and linking to work.
BPEL?!?! They wanted me to GO BACK a couple of versions
I know jack shit about anything this guy's talking about, but it seems unlikely it's actually a troll. Could somebody with mod points (and a clue) look at this post, please?
The Directions of the Eclipse Foundation (Score:5, Interesting)
Dr Gamma was also one of the fathers of Eclipse and the original lead on the Eclipse Java development tools.
Eclipse has been going on since the early 2000s and six days ago enjoyed the release of Galileo (v3.5). If you've had time to look at recent release, what are your opinions on what Eclipse has become? Has it made any wrong turns? How do you respond to criticisms of "bloat" or "too resource intensive"? Do you see it becoming more than what it is or transforming?
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Plugins.
Eclipse is an awesome platform for Java. As good as Netbeans. Over the years I've checked it out and I've never felt the desire to stay with it like I do with Netbeans.
But when it comes to developing in other languages, Eclipse just doesn't cut and Netbeans blows the doors off of it.
Some examples:
When I downloaded the previous version of Galileo, from the menu I installed the plugins for C++. I couldn't get the C++ compiling and linking to work.
BPEL?!?! They wanted me to GO BACK a couple of versions
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Agreed. Not a troll. Valid criticisms of Eclipse.
Netbeans, on the other hand, is only used by pedophiles, so GP should be ignored on those grounds.
Re:The Directions of the Eclipse Foundation (Score:0)
Your comment about Netbeans users isn't helpful or accurate, and it certainly isn't funny.
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I dunno, I thought it was funny