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Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-gui-on dept.

Mark Wielaard writes "The gcj team created a natively compiled build of the Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. Red Hat provides RPMs for easy installation. Footnotes has screenshots by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets."

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  1. Websphere Application Developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey! Does this mean that i can now use Websphere applcation developer without the 20 minute wait?

  2. Re:load times by aled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes! I love so much all those modal splash windows, in fact I'm recompiling all my apps to exit inmediately after showing them...

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  3. obligatory pun by 1nv4d3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks to the expected slashdotting, this is just one more eclipse I can't look directly at.

  4. Re:Looks great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Top four reasons VC++ is better than any open source IDE:

    1) Lead developer has a cool name, like "Anders Heljborg".

    2) Lead developer earns a cool salary, like $1,000,000+ a year.

    3) Lead developer has legion of microsoft's code monkeys implementing and testing features out the yang, and they still can't burn up all the money they extort from, err, i mean charge, their customers.

    4) Anders Heljsborg rewite and maintainence has been going on for four or five years. Give eclipse a chance to ketchup.

  5. ha ha by teknokracy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn! For a second there I thought /. actually had an interesting article... on a fast Mitsubishi car!

  6. Please Read Parent!!! by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is extremely important that *all* developers read the parent post. This IDE may have the most groundshaking features *ever*!

    Let's take a look:

    Automatic generation of body files

    Hot *damn*! It writes my code for me!

    Source code reformatting

    Then it reformats it to fit whatever standard I need!

    Automatic code fixing

    Then it *debugs* the code!

    Application builder

    Finally, it *builds* the program I'm working on!

    All this, from a piece of software that the ignorant layman might consider no more than a wrapper for an editor and a compiler.

    Truly, a groundbreaking achievement. :-)

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