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This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there. There is also a significant community investment in

This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there. There is also a significant community investment in using Android with Eclipse. Eclipse once you get rolling is amazing, and most importantly its free which is a big deal especially to cash strapped individuals and businesses. What will happen with the existing Eclipse SDK? Also what about GWT? Splitting the IDE communities is bold. So many questions though.

ben1040 13y ago
>Also what about GWT? Is GWT still even a thing they care about? It seems like they're pushing people towards Dart and Angular at this point. I/O last year was seriously thin on GWT, and it looks this year like there's only one session, which got misfiled in the schedule under "Google Wallet." https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/331474237 https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/331474237
- chii 13y ago
  that's sad to hear, i quite like gwt. but ATM gwt is quite feature complete, except for bugs.
vidarh 13y ago
> This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there. What's pretty crazy is that they were insane enough to base it on Eclipse in the first place, seeing as it's probably the only IDE that so many people hate so intensely. I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse. I suspect you will find quite a lot of people with similarly strong hate for Eclipse. It's a trainwreck. Though in slow motion, as Eclipse never seems to do anything fast.
- nevster 13y ago
  It's probably because the Community Edition of IntelliJ didn't exist when they started doing their Android tooling. Eclipse was more dominant back then. That's slowly been changing (thank goodness!)
- tutysara 13y ago
  > "I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse." - after hearing this from a fellow emacs user I am seriously considering a switch to Intellij from eclipse and see how it goes.

ben1040 13y ago

>Also what about GWT? Is GWT still even a thing they care about? It seems like they're pushing people towards Dart and Angular at this point. I/O last year was seriously thin on GWT, and it looks this year like there's only one session, which got misfiled in the schedule under "Google Wallet." https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/331474237 https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/331474237

chii 13y ago
that's sad to hear, i quite like gwt. but ATM gwt is quite feature complete, except for bugs.

vidarh 13y ago

> This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there. What's pretty crazy is that they were insane enough to base it on Eclipse in the first place, seeing as it's probably the only IDE that so many people hate so intensely. I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse. I suspect you will find quite a lot of people with similarly strong hate for Eclipse. It's a trainwreck. Though in slow motion, as Eclipse never seems to do anything fast.

nevster 13y ago
It's probably because the Community Edition of IntelliJ didn't exist when they started doing their Android tooling. Eclipse was more dominant back then. That's slowly been changing (thank goodness!)
tutysara 13y ago
> "I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse." - after hearing this from a fellow emacs user I am seriously considering a switch to Intellij from eclipse and see how it goes.