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I have to say I feel like I'm an oddball here for happily using Eclipse. With an SSD, it's incredibly fast and features like its static analysis (code completi

I have to say I feel like I'm an oddball here for happily using Eclipse. With an SSD, it's incredibly fast and features like its static analysis (code completion and error checking), debugger, and even 'open resource' improve productivity. That said for quick scripts I'll just use something like kate or vi, but for a large project, the IDE greatly simplifies things.

hello_moto 15y ago
You're not an oddball. I use Eclipse heavily with a few plugins: m2eclipse, subclipse, EclEmma (code coverage), FindBugs (static analysis), and CheckStyle (code rule enforcer). Being able to navigate the codebase blazingly quick (go to method implementation, class definition, etc) and get a better overall picture of the class (Outline provides the list of all methods, constructors, member variables complete with access modifier) is definitely more productive than anything else.