Quite a bit of negativity around Eclipse found here, below are a few of my perspectives. Eclipse is one of those tools that I've found to give dividends over t

Quite a bit of negativity around Eclipse found here, below are a few of my perspectives. Eclipse is one of those tools that I've found to give dividends over the years, I mainly used Eclipse CDT for C/C++ development, and then moved on to Scala and the normal Java based Eclipse. There's also DBeaver for Database work. The learning curve was steep, mainly around setting up projects so the compiles happened outside the IDE. I mainly used Eclipse to discover the code (call hierarchy was a godsend) and for finding definitions, autocomplete etc... Over time though the investment has paid of, going from Java, to C/C++ to Scala, to DB work (dbeaver) all have Eclipse underneath it and the same principles apply. A few free plugins like Vrapper that give Vim emulation are also super nice. A huge plus is that if/whenever I switch jobs, I don't need to harass anyone in the finance department over licenses. This scales up from the scrappiest of startups to the largest of red-tape laden mega-orgs. Eclipse has fallen out of fashion but I doubt it'll die, its one tool in my toolbox I can always reach for.