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Seems like a very balanced article to me. The comments about Eclipse made me laugh (I just had to start using Eclipse for a different reason and hate it with th
by podperson 15y ago
Seems like a very balanced article to me. The comments about Eclipse made me laugh (I just had to start using Eclipse for a different reason and hate it with the heat of a thousand suns).
- simmons 15y agoUsing Eclipse gets better as you get more comfortable with its peculiarities. I think the author did a good job of summing up the Eclipse experience--there's a lot to hate, and a lot to like. After using Eclipse for several years, it still has that "designed by committee" feel, but I do find myself missing some of its features when I'm using other environments.
- Cyranix 15y agoI've actually been using the PHP... perspective?... for Eclipse and have found it to be pretty decent. (The author is right, some of the terminology is amusingly abstract.) Configuring the program just-so and learning to accept the slow boot-up are spot-on assessments. That said, I should take some time to look for another IDE that captures the basic advantages of Eclipse. I'm mainly interested in having a panel with the project's directory structure, intelligent navigation (e.g. Ctrl-click on a function call to be taken to its definition in another class), and decent code completion and syntax checking. I might even be willing to pay for it.