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Gosling Returns To The Java Fold
MemRaven writes "In an article on CNet News, James Gosling reveals that he's returning to the Java Tools group at Sun. The article touches briefly on the Eclipse situation as well as some vague statements about what he's doing in the future. Since he's been gone from the Java fold for a while, this might spell some definite changes in how Sun treats its stepchild."
Before I upgraded my laptop, I use to use an old laptop with 256Mb of ram. Have you even tried eclipse for more than a second? Hands down, eclipse is one of the fastest java IDE's. I'm still using eclipse on my old 450mhz P3 system and it is responsive. Of course the system has 512mb of ram. Java IDE's are memory hungry. People should know better to confuse disk cache related slowness with application slowness. I actually upgraded my laptop because installing .NET and IIS made my system crawl. Those who think the latest VS.NET is great are right and wrong. It's great if you have 512mb of ram or more. If you don't it's worse than eclipse, because it loads a ton of libraries and eats up a huge amount of memory. In both cases, the disk caching is what kills performance. It's not that VS.NET or eclipse is slow. They're just memory hogs.
Subject says it all really, but 1.5 contains some substantial additions to the language, some much needed library additions, and in general is full of goodies:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp
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My own findings have been that VS.NET and Eclipse perform about the same. They both are snappy for a while. They they go off on some tangent and the GUI doesn't respond. If you wait long enough, all your keystrokes and mouse clicks will catch up and the GUI is responsive again, for a while.