Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
This is their “light IDE” basically, the equivalent of VS Code. Their Java IDE is the full thing, well, Eclipse. Although I personally prefer IntelliJ IDEA.
Had a coworker five years ago who wouldn’t let go of it. And he was really productive.
To my understanding, there are still some things it does better than IntelliJ, for instance being able to add all missing imports in one go instead of one by one.
I’ll admit though that this is a rather tiny advantage, and as I haven’t touched Java in quite a while, it may be even outdated.
That’s good to hear. I haven’t touched Eclipse in maybe 15 years and back then it fueled me a burning hatred for IDEs. It felt like a huge confusing mess. But maybe it has become more streamlined lately.
Now I have grown out of my hatred and can’t imagine a day without (non Eclipse) IDEs.
It’s still a hot mess. Helped my wife set it up for developing a Java webapp with Tomcat and it’s such a mess to set up, compared to IntelliJ that I could just set up a Springboot easily.
This is their “light IDE” basically, the equivalent of VS Code. Their Java IDE is the full thing, well, Eclipse. Although I personally prefer IntelliJ IDEA.
Is anyone using Eclipse anymore? I’ve barely heard anything about it the past 10 years.
Had a coworker five years ago who wouldn’t let go of it. And he was really productive.
To my understanding, there are still some things it does better than IntelliJ, for instance being able to add all missing imports in one go instead of one by one.
I’ll admit though that this is a rather tiny advantage, and as I haven’t touched Java in quite a while, it may be even outdated.
That’s good to hear. I haven’t touched Eclipse in maybe 15 years and back then it fueled me a burning hatred for IDEs. It felt like a huge confusing mess. But maybe it has become more streamlined lately.
Now I have grown out of my hatred and can’t imagine a day without (non Eclipse) IDEs.
I have used it about 3 years ago and it was still a confusing mess. I recommend sticking with IntelliJ for JVM development for now.
It’s still a hot mess. Helped my wife set it up for developing a Java webapp with Tomcat and it’s such a mess to set up, compared to IntelliJ that I could just set up a Springboot easily.
It is outdated. It just requires two clicks.
Which clicks? I haven’t found them.
I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.
A shocking amount of microcontroller manufacturers have eclipse based IDEs for their chips. Thought that seems to be going out of style, luckily.