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> I don't know a single person who used Eclipse after 2020. So your circle of acquaintances doesn't include anyone who used an IDE in the past year, and you ex
by fivea 5y ago
> I don't know a single person who used Eclipse after 2020.
So your circle of acquaintances doesn't include anyone who used an IDE in the past year, and you extrapolate your personal anecdote how far?
> Don't you think that supporting Eclipse might be a viable marketing strategy to get people who are stuck in the past (...)
Can we spend a minute discussing how idiotic is this fad-drive development belief? I mean, why is anyone expected to be perceived as smart if they drop something that works in favour of an unproven tool just because it's new?
- nraf 5y agoThat’s a fair statement but given that IntelliJ is over 20 years and the IDE of choice for many, if not most, professional Java engineers, it doesn’t apply here.
- fivea 5y ago> (...) and the IDE of choice for many, if not most, professional Java engineers (...) The same baseless assertion can be made regarding Eclipse, and it would be less doubtful given Eclipse's FLOSS nature. Again, can we spend a minute discussing how idiotic is this fad-drive development belief? It's weird how, unlike in any engineering field, there's this cargo cult faith that new and untested is automatically better than old and reliable,and anyone who hasn't mindlessly jumped into a bandwagon is somehow the fool in the story.