First Thoughts on the Eclipse IDE?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 4, 2002 @08:57AM from the looks-like-it-has-some-promise dept.

OpenSourcerer asks: "Has anyone used the opensource IDE Eclipse. Initial impression is that of a slightly slow but very modular and configurable IDE. Anyone else has any experience using this?" I must say that the idea is novel enough, instead of building an environment around a specific language/compiler, you build a framework and have plugins support the specific features that you want. Java development tools have already been released and it looks like the C/C++ project is just getting under way. For those of you who have given the Eclipse project a quick look, what do you think?

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Re:What was wrong with emacs? by noom · 2002-01-04 09:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The problem with emacs is that you have to extend it using LISP (elisp, sorry).

And that sucks.

With Java, at least, you get to take advantage of an active developer communitity and lots of compatable (and open-source) components available.