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Would you say the same about Visual Studio? Netbeans? These have had longer tenure than Eclipse. What makes emacs/vim longer-lasting to me is their reach acros

• edwinnathaniel 14y ago
  You can say that for VS.NET and NetBeans. Eclipse is also cross-platform and once you thought Java development dried up comes along Android. I've seen some C/C++ people in the embedded world to use Eclipse more and more lately.
• ctdonath 14y ago
  Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse, etc. get frequent updates. They get replaced on a regular & frequent basis with something similar. It's not "hundred year furniture", it's replacing the sofa every year with a new sofa featuring better upholstery, stronger joints, and better stain resistance. Might be the same general design, made by the same manufacturer, but it's not the same instance of "sofa". It's the emacs/vim example which is more applicable. The core code hasn't changed for a very long time. The facade may change, but the operation behind that interface is unchanged. Methinks the article refers more to deliver once, update never, restart never, crashing intolerable. Having a pacemaker makes one keenly aware of the difference: just a battery replacement (4-8 years) is a major undertaking, deliberate restarts are avoided and undertaken with grave care, and crashing, well, I wouldn't notice that problem for long.