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Eclipse seemed to me to be a "substrate for Eclipse plugins" first and foremost, whereas both NetBeans and IntelliJ struck me as "tools for writing code" first.
by bitwize 2y ago
Eclipse seemed to me to be a "substrate for Eclipse plugins" first and foremost, whereas both NetBeans and IntelliJ struck me as "tools for writing code" first.
- atombender 2y agoThat's how it was designed, from even back when it was VisualAge and written in SmallTalk. Eclipse is basically a language-neutral UI "shell", the "Eclipse Tool Platform", where all language/code-related functionality is provided as bundles of extensions. And then extensions can be extended, and so on. Eventually they standardized the extension system around an extension/component framework called OSGi. Not sure if this new Eclipse IDE uses it.