[clue-tech] Eclipse: What are people using it for

[J. Joseph Benavidez]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:55 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> 
> > I've started using eclipse for a bit of Java development, but I've
> > discovered it has pluggins for Perl, C/C++, PHP...
> >
> > I'm just learning how to use it, but it seems to be the "greatest
> > thing since sliced bread" (as my dear departed Ma used to say)
> >
> > ...I'd say it's the greatest thing since Emacs...
> >
> > My apologies if this is one of those religious war starters, but I'm
> > curious how many people have become eclipse fans and ditched their
> > other ide's. As I said, I've just started using it so maybe it has
> > it's deficiencies. If so, what are they?
> 
> I guess I'll chime in.  I only tried out Eclipse briefly and then went 
> back to NetBeans.  To be honest I can't really remember what I didn't 
> like about Eclipse, but I definitely preferred NetBeans for 
> development.  Here is what I remember thinking:  1) Eclipse is bloated, 
> 2) Eclipse is harder to configure the settings, 3) finding plugins is 
> sometimes hard.  I don't know, I just got the whole "jack of all trades, 
> master of none" feeling about Eclipse, but that was over a year ago.
> 
> But I will say this:  if you like emacs I'm not surprised you like 
> Eclipse ;)
> 
> Angelo

Heh... I was a develop-with-vim guy for the longest time. (I program
mainly in java). I'd go into eclipse every now and then to browse files
in a hierarchy and/or to fix imports (see ctl-shft-O!). I think when I
found the vim plugin was when I was pushed over. And now I can't do
without method/variable completion, auto compiling, the getter/setter
creator, etc.... Not sure if you use checkstyle at all, but we use that
to give us warnings when we violate our checkstyle rules, too. Haven't
used eclipse for other languages, though.

j.joseph