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> But really, I wish someone would write an article like "why I switched from vim to Eclipse", but I only ever see ones where the author does the opposite. You
by eta_carinae 14y ago
> But really, I wish someone would write an article like "why I switched from vim to Eclipse", but I only ever see ones where the author does the opposite.
You haven't looked very hard, most Eclipse users today came from emacs or vi. And are you seriously arguing that a search/replace is more effective than a refactoring performed automatically with guaranteed correctness?
You are being unreasonably and inexplicable biased against Eclipse (and IDE's in general), it's pretty baffling.
- thesteamboat 14y agoI think you're unreasonably interpreting this as an attack. Articles of the form "I switched to Vim/Emacs" show up reasonably regularly here and on programming related subreddits. I can't recall seeing a similar article touting the benefits of switching to Eclipse. Similarly, a cursory google search of 'switched "from vim to eclipse"' doesn't reveal any articles of this form. If you can point me to such an article, or write one, I'd be interested, but I think you have to agree that articles of the form IDE->vim/emacs are much more common than the reverse.
- jrockway 14y agoI'm not being biased against Eclipse, I'm just wondering if the productivity loss its crashing and lack of editing functionality inflict is less than the productivity gain from being 100% accurate at renaming variables.
- batgaijin 14y agoMost people I know learned Eclipse/Visual Studio first.