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While I am an IntelliJ IDEA fan, this is one area where Eclipse stands out. Long ago they decided to part ways with pure Java and incorporate native platform UI
by abalone 8y ago
While I am an IntelliJ IDEA fan, this is one area where Eclipse stands out. Long ago they decided to part ways with pure Java and incorporate native platform UI via JNI.[1]
[1] https://www.eclipse.org/swt/ https://www.eclipse.org/swt/
- bootlooped 8y agoI had a professor that was adamant Java IDEs are not written in Java. I pointed out IntelliJ was written in Java, but he countered that it used native code under the hood to do the UI. I never investigated this claim any further, and don't have a strong feeling as to whether it is true or not.
- lokedhs 8y agoIt's not. IDEA is fully Java. Eclipse, however uses SWT as its graphics system, which uses native code.
- nottorp 8y agoWell, if you go through the 2 year course on using Eclipse, you mean. Snappiness doesn't help much if you simply can't figure out how to create a new project from the ide menus...
- overgard 8y agoProbably isn't helping that their screenshots are all about a decade out of date