I agree with you mostly: I hate these sorts of x is better than y editor war commentaries, but this one does make an important point: Eclipse is slow. And it i

I agree with you mostly: I hate these sorts of x is better than y editor war commentaries, but this one does make an important point: Eclipse is slow. And it is slow. Not slow compared to IntelliJ. Not slow compared to NetBeans. Slow compared to Eclipse 3. The UI refactorings they did in Eclipse 4 have turned it into a trainwreck on any of my machines, to the point where I still use Eclipse 3 for my day-to-day development. Eclipse 4 remains noticeably slower for me on Windows and almost unusable on Mac OS. The thought of having to run it on SunOS or AIX makes me choke up with fear. That Eclipse 3.8 updated their icon to be identical to Eclipse 4 means that I have a landmine disguised as a lovely field in my task bar. I hope people keep trumpeting this because every developer and foundation member I've heard from are in denial about this.