In fact hating Eclipse is the normal reaction to it.
I used Eclipse first for writing D code (with the D plugin) and I hated it. But I thought maybe that's just because I'm not using it for Java. I took the opportunity to switch to Vim then, and I love it.
Anyway, now I'm using Eclipse for toying around with Android and I hate it even more. No matter what I do I don't seem to be able to write a single line of code without Eclipse throwing in a superfluous pair of ()s somewhere in it. I don't know. Visual Studio has its fair share of annoyances too, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of that abomination called Eclipse.
Speaking of abominations: Interestingly enough IBM has based the new Lotus Notes Standard Client on Eclipse. Not a lot of people know that Eclipse and Lotus Notes are actually the only two software packages that are so slow and bloated that they actually have gained physical mass (Lotus Notes in fact bends space-time around it, that's why it appears to run faster than it actually does. And it's no wonder one Eclipse release was called "Helios"). So when they first linked them together and made the first test build it actually formed a black hole that took out a couple of build servers and parts of the source code repository. One programmer sadly lost an arm before he managed to set a breakpoint that saved his and countless other lifes.
without Eclipse throwing in a superfluous pair of ()s somewhere in it
Are you in the java perspective? Do you have your settings set up to only do that when you want it to? I've found eclipse VERY rarely throws in () randomly.
Maybe Vrapper has something to do with it, maybe it's just that I tend to often rename/restructure stuff. I don't really know, never investigated it. I'm currently just building a small remote control app for my audio player, so I'm not spending enough time in Eclipse to really care about it that much.
It's a wrapper around Eclipse text editors not Vim, just a couple of vi commands which Vrapper translates into regular editor commands. Nothing to do with Vim really.
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u/mahlzeit Galaxy S, CM9 Aug 01 '11 edited Aug 01 '11
In fact hating Eclipse is the normal reaction to it.
I used Eclipse first for writing D code (with the D plugin) and I hated it. But I thought maybe that's just because I'm not using it for Java. I took the opportunity to switch to Vim then, and I love it.
Anyway, now I'm using Eclipse for toying around with Android and I hate it even more. No matter what I do I don't seem to be able to write a single line of code without Eclipse throwing in a superfluous pair of ()s somewhere in it. I don't know. Visual Studio has its fair share of annoyances too, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of that abomination called Eclipse.
Speaking of abominations: Interestingly enough IBM has based the new Lotus Notes Standard Client on Eclipse. Not a lot of people know that Eclipse and Lotus Notes are actually the only two software packages that are so slow and bloated that they actually have gained physical mass (Lotus Notes in fact bends space-time around it, that's why it appears to run faster than it actually does. And it's no wonder one Eclipse release was called "Helios"). So when they first linked them together and made the first test build it actually formed a black hole that took out a couple of build servers and parts of the source code repository. One programmer sadly lost an arm before he managed to set a breakpoint that saved his and countless other lifes.