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First Thoughts on the Eclipse IDE?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. I remember CMVC from my days at IBM!!! by Drake42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Completely
    Masochistic
    Version
    Control

    CMVC was unbelievably painful to use.
    *shiver*

    Ok, that's the end of my nightmare flashback.

  2. "Sun" Eclipse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    How nice of IBM to name it Eclipse. :-)

    Now all you Like-Java-dislike-Sun people can show your dissupport of Sun by using the tool named just for this purpose! Use it where "Sun don't shine"!

    (on a somewhat more serious note; yes, both Sun ["Blue Bombers"] and IBM do name some projects according to the intended target)