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Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?

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Post by jitendrac » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

I am an android developer with low-end hardware(2gb ram and core 2 due cpu). I can do every work in eclipse with ease.

But when i tried IntelliJ-based android studio, it pretty much stucked in every five minutes and even crashed a lot. after struggling for 2-3 weeks i went back to eclipse.

and it still works great.

Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?

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Post by Zisko » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:33 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #29

Tedious: Yes. It thinks it is a platform. It thinks users care about its architecture, which is over-engineered. It has it's own package manager. It is tedious. Slow: Buy a new computer. With memory. Sheesh. Unusable: Well, it can be used. But it is a travesty of a GUI. A GUI should offer only valid operations. Eclipse lets, nay offers, nay presents on a silver platter just a click away the opportunity to do senseles…

This is exactly how I feel. Frustrated that it's easy to ruin an entire project just by one mistaken click of the mouse.

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