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I've chuckled a few times in this discussion where people have been asking "Have you tried Eclipse on an SSD?" Know what makes an IDE work even better than an S

I've chuckled a few times in this discussion where people have been asking "Have you tried Eclipse on an SSD?" Know what makes an IDE work even better than an SSD? Being able to fit the entire thing in RAM and not have to page out all the time. Other than the speed part, the main reason I keep using Emacs is because of the easy-to-access-remotely part of it. I've got a nice beefy Linux box at home that I can ssh into. Tmux keeps my sessions alive. Emacs lets me do all of the code editing. And the nice little Surface 3 is easy to carry around and makes a fantastic SSH terminal.

nkhodyunya 11y ago
Isn't TRAMP a way to manage remote files that is way better than starting emacs directly on a remote machine?
agumonkey 11y ago
Emacs isn't perfect, and Emacs was the Eclipse of its day. But it makes a lot of sense so many times. Very pragmatic, extensible simply. It's still thin spaghetti compared to the "sturdiness" of Java/Eclipse. But I've seen the internal long time ago and it was just a fatter model of spaghetti. Anything in Eclipse requires a lot of efforts, and too many times the original goal gets diluted in the implementation. I said it elsewhere, after spending 2004-2007 on Eclipse, then leaving for Emacs, I recently had to go back to Eclipse, it's not better, git integration is useless, lots of windows for no reason, a very special kind of UI, maybe suitable for people that likes windows and mouse. It's sad because it comes from the same community that creates the most job friendly systems, so if you wanna play with JEE/Maven/EMF/..., you'll end up needing something like Eclipse, because of this subtle synergy.