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Well, Eclipse has had practically two decades of vi/emacs users shitting on it and yet it is still popular enough to warrant an entire conference. https://www.
by brandonmenc 6y ago
Well, Eclipse has had practically two decades of vi/emacs users shitting on it and yet it is still popular enough to warrant an entire conference.
https://www.eclipsecon.org/2020 https://www.eclipsecon.org/2020
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y agoI'd argue that Eclipse is more like vim and emacs than it is like VS Code. Better analogues to the latter, imo: BBEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom Obviously those still have users, but in that particular market niche the turnover is higher. What determines long-run resilience is less feature sets than the distribution and development models.
- saalweachter 6y agoIsn't Eclipse basically the modern Emacs? It's a plugin management system that happens to be shipped with a set of plug-ins targeted at serving as an IDE, written in Java instead of Lisp.
- satyanash 6y ago> Isn't Eclipse basically the modern Emacs? Ah, but you miss its hackability aspect by virtue of being a lisp runtime. I wouldn't say eclipse is anywhere close to "hackable" as emacs is. Just run C-x b <scratch> RET and you have an elisp buffer to manipulate the state of the entire editor. It allows for superfast iteration, compared to the plugin development cycle of other editors. Though, vscode/javascript has definitely made it much closer to what is possible in emacs.
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