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I'm the complete opposite of the OP. My intro CS courses were taught using Eclipse, and I am constantly using it (for lack of a better, free, option) at work. I
by javanix 17y ago
I'm the complete opposite of the OP. My intro CS courses were taught using Eclipse, and I am constantly using it (for lack of a better, free, option) at work. I am getting more and more fed up with the bloat in Eclipse. Running in a Linux environment results in hard-to-diagnose crashes fairly often, and the memory overhead is, quite frankly, unacceptable.
I would gladly move to something lightweight like the OP asked for. Most of the features in Eclipse aren't useful to people working on relatively small projects, and the features that are useful (code completion, refactoring, nice library integrations) could probably be deployed with much less overhead.
- whirlycott1 17y agoAt my company, we've had people use it on WinXP, Vista, OS/X and Linux. Nobody ever suffered from crashes. There are a few different flavors of Eclipse and it sounds like you were using the kitchen sink version. There's a smaller one which everybody I know seems to use that may be worth checking out.
- abalashov 17y agoThat's what I'm saying.
- wlievens 17y agoNote that the argument isn't that Eclipse [1] is perfect, but that Java without Eclipse is impractical. [1] Or some other rich IDE.