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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Novel? by istvandragosani · 2002-01-04 09:00 · Score: 2, Offtopic

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

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VS.NET does it, too by uradu · 2002-01-04 09:04 · 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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