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Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

by gshx 10y ago

turnip1979 10y ago
When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart??? The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally complex and bloated.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago
  Android Studio, based closely on IntelliJ, has this menu item on the OSX version: File | Invalidate Caches / Restart ...
PaulHoule 10y ago
I worked with Eclipse for a few years and found it was a constant source of stress, refusing to stay synchronized with maven, crashing, having to restart it, etc.
- stillworks 10y ago
  TL;DR +1 for IntelliJ I was hating maven, until I started using IntelliJ. I don't remember ever Eclipse going to zero error count on a maven project whereas the project would just compile if maven was used outside of Eclipse. IntelliJ just works. FTW it has Eclipse key-mappings as well.
AnimalMuppet 10y ago
IntelliJ lets you do a lot more from the keyboard. It's suggestions for code completion are very useful. It's amazing to see the code almost writing itself, several times faster than you can type!
- JiNCMG 10y ago
  It even has a plugin that will tell you the key commands for any feature you use more than 3 times.
  - vmasto 10y ago
    Oh! Link please?
    - mkoryak 10y ago
      i think its called 'key promoter'
quantumhobbit 10y ago
"A UI error has occurred trying to display a UI error" or something equally unhelpful. When eclipse gave me that error message I immediately wrote it off as useful software. Also it is dog slow compared to intellij
reitanqild 10y ago
I had some issues when I used eclipse, especially back in 2009 when I was forced to use perforce.

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Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

by gshx 10y ago

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

turnip1979 10y ago
When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart??? The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally complex and bloated.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago
  Android Studio, based closely on IntelliJ, has this menu item on the OSX version: File | Invalidate Caches / Restart ...
PaulHoule 10y ago
I worked with Eclipse for a few years and found it was a constant source of stress, refusing to stay synchronized with maven, crashing, having to restart it, etc.
- stillworks 10y ago
  TL;DR +1 for IntelliJ I was hating maven, until I started using IntelliJ. I don't remember ever Eclipse going to zero error count on a maven project whereas the project would just compile if maven was used outside of Eclipse. IntelliJ just works. FTW it has Eclipse key-mappings as well.
AnimalMuppet 10y ago
IntelliJ lets you do a lot more from the keyboard. It's suggestions for code completion are very useful. It's amazing to see the code almost writing itself, several times faster than you can type!
- JiNCMG 10y ago
  It even has a plugin that will tell you the key commands for any feature you use more than 3 times.
  - vmasto 10y ago
    Oh! Link please?
    - mkoryak 10y ago
      i think its called 'key promoter'
quantumhobbit 10y ago
"A UI error has occurred trying to display a UI error" or something equally unhelpful. When eclipse gave me that error message I immediately wrote it off as useful software. Also it is dog slow compared to intellij
reitanqild 10y ago
I had some issues when I used eclipse, especially back in 2009 when I was forced to use perforce.