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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it's great by dyregod · 2002-01-04 09:08 · Score: 5, Informative

i've been using eclipse for 4 months or so and think it's the best IDE i've ever used. I don't think it's slow.. well it's still not a native app. and the motif stuff on *nix is still a bit slow but on windows and with the swt gtk bindings it rocks.

during the past months i haven't experienced any crashes or loss of data even though i'm on the integration builds.

to sum it up. a great platform which improves with every release.