

But like all things Internet, not everybody who claims to have an opinion actually has one. I don't hate it, but I guess some of those who do have their reasons. Apart from the hundreds of things that are better about it (for a Java programmer), it is also a lot easier on the eyes (for a DTP person / typographer).īut Eclipse was and is made not specifically for Java but for many languages, it is very modular and has a lot of plugins available. I never looked back, I am in a different world now. But then I invested a day to try out IntelliJ IDEA. Worked with it for at least a year, the experience wasn't bad (though I and a colleague had a nasty Eclipse bug that wasn't fixed at least half a year, no reinstall helped, and I had the same bug at home on a completely different machine no one on the Internet seemed to have the same problem, though). Then I started with Java, so I got Eclipse. It was the first thing I worked with after a decade of (work-related) Visual Basic 6.
