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Comparing Visual Studio and Eclipse

Posted by kdawson on from the path-of-totality dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Without waxing too philosophical about IDE design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and the Eclipse IDE."

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  1. I beleive the technical term is by JamesRose · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eclipse>Visual Studio

    Ba Doom Chi!

  2. How is IBM an unbiased source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So a marketing article by IBM (the friggin' owners of Eclipse) compares Eclipse to Visual Studio. How can anyone expect this to be objective? If Microsoft had written this article on their website, there would be charges of FUD, FUD, FUD

  3. Re:Intellisense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    For example, the fact that when you hit DOT in VS, it goes to the last used property/method rather than the first one in an alphabetical list.

    So it is impossible to get a DOT into your source code? Thanks, I think I know now why somebody can hate VS so much. Isn't it possible at all to get the DOT into DOT-net? But without the DOT .net is nothing. No wonder why we see so few successful .net deployments.

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    Feel free to mod me troll

  4. Down With IDEs! by aldheorte · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you have to use an IDE to write code in your chosen language, you picked the wrong language, or failed to create the domain specific one.

    Yeah, I know, off topic, troll-bait, but someone has to keep the candle burning in the dark times.

  5. Re:A few things by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fairness regarding any comparison with OSS and Microsoft? You must have forgotten what website this is. MS products are mediocre at best. And even that is being very generous.

    Mind you, if there was a half-assed Mac-based IDE in this comparison it would have gotten rave reviews for ease of use. Of course, when it only has 4 features it becomes pretty simple to figure out.

    Flame away. Censor this post into oblivion.