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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. Novel? by istvandragosani · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    What's so novel about this? emacs has been like this for years!

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    1. Re:Novel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes emacs has various *-mode.el language sensivity modules, vile and vim have equivalents, in the payware category SlickEdit(tm) has a variety of programming language sensitivity modes (including vi and emacs editor simulation modes), the LSE from DEC/Compaq has exchangeable language sensitivity features as well as integration with CMS. Visual Age from IBM has Java/Rexx/RPG/C++ programming language modes as well as hooks into a TeamShare SCM from IBM. In short, if you are contemplating an IDE and that IDE locks you into a specific language then that should indicate that it is time to move on to a better IDE, several exist.

  2. VS.NET does it, too by uradu · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Languages are pluggable and use the same forms designer and property editor. Haven't used it much though, I'll have to see how overall usability of the IDE is in the long term.

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  3. Where the heck? by spatrick_123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where the heck is the Intercal plug-in? :-)

  4. VIM? by ntr0py · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will I be able to plug Vim into it as the editor? Personally, I don't think I could get any work done using any other editor, or at least similar keybindings.

  5. Still OT: karma by JMZero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who hunts a post like this down when it's already at 0 and puts it to -1? Who reads at 0? And the worst thing they see while reading at 0 is a stupid post about karma that's clearly marked OT? Someone explain?

    I'm glad I'm distracting idiot moderators from damaging actual conversations. Who knows, maybe this comment will absorb some more soon-to-be-misspent mod points. I'll leave it at 2 for just that reason.

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