Unfortunately I’m not in the path of totality but I am pretty close

Alt: A picture of the (almost but not totally covered) eclipse

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    7 months ago

    Eclipse has its share of problems (and outdated UI and workflows), still I’ll happily use it over IntelliJ w/o hesitation.

    Funnily enough, a lot of other (Java)Senior developers who tried both are fine with Eclipse, too.

    Besides the astroturfing from IDEA which is really annoying, Eclipse integrates far better with standard build tools and is our last descend Open Source IDE (Netbeans effectively being a zombie at this time).

    IDEA is already pushing/forcing their own solutions/build tools/etc. to up sell their shit, once Eclipse is gone, there will be no alternative and IDEA/IntelliJ will start the entshittifaction…

    People really forgot what a shit show were the 90s, paying lots of money for commercial IDEs.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t actually think eclipse is completely terrible (just saw the opportunity for a meme). My main problem with it is that unlike intelliJ, the UI buttons don’t scale with the font size, making it pretty unusable on my HiDPI laptop.

      For now I’ll just stick with IntelliJ/idea IDEs (I have access to an education license for ultimate) and then if/when Idea ruins it I’ll probably just try to integrate my Java workflow into either VS Code or an nvim setup

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        7 months ago

        Nah, didn’t mind the meme!

        I totally accept that Eclipse doesn’t work for and life is too short to waste it on tooling.

        In that sense, good luck with your current & future setups and happy coding! :-)