Why does anyone still use eclipse? It's the most tedious, slow, unusable piece of software that makes java a pain to use.
Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
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Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#2what do you suggest instead?
jGrasp wont install on my linux machines for some reason and I have never had anyone propose anything else.
(i'm an entry level java student)
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#3In a word, Android. Google pretty much requires one to use Eclipse in order to develop Android software. Obviously one can struggle to get around this assumption, but the adjustments required take more effort than using Eclipse, granted its many limitations.
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#4In a word, Android. Google pretty much requires one to use Eclipse in order to develop Android software. Obviously one can struggle to get around this assumption, but the adjustments required take more effort than using Eclipse, granted its many limitations.
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Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#5In a word, Android. Google pretty much requires one to use Eclipse in order to develop Android software. Obviously one can struggle to get around this assumption, but the adjustments required take more effort than using Eclipse, granted its many limitations.
Google has switched to Idea with Android Studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#6Eclipse works fine on my Acer Aspire Netbook. I agree it could be better but it's essentially a very capable and adaptable piece of software that's available for free.
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#7We still haven't migrated to IntelliJ. No other reason, though IntelliJ is expensive. What are the alternatives? Netbeans doesn't support aspectj.
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#8In a word, Android. Google pretty much requires one to use Eclipse in order to develop Android software. Obviously one can struggle to get around this assumption, but the adjustments required take more effort than using Eclipse, granted its many limitations.
Google's IntelliJ-based Android Studio is at version 0.4.2. It's still a little rough but very promising. I suspect when it reaches 1.0 or thereabouts, Eclipse numbers will go down.
But Eclipse is still pretty useful for creating Java web services.
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#9Eclipse works fine on my Acer Aspire Netbook. I agree it could be better but it's essentially a very capable and adaptable piece of software that's available for free.
IntelliJ is a significantly lesser resource hog. I need 3 gigs with eclipse but only 1 with intellij in ram, and cpu utilization is way better in IntelliJ.
Re: Why does anyone still use Eclipse?
#10It works fine for me. So does Netbeans. Haven't tried IntellyJ, but it will probably work fine too.