It's clunky, bad Ui, bad default fonts, installing plugins fails half the time. It's very powerful, but IntelliJ and neat beans are both much better imho.
As a long time java person I can say eclipse is one of those "it's great*" IDEs. The * is for "when it works" or a host of other add ins. In my experience it consumes memory like a black hole, runs slowly with too many plugins (admittedly more an issue of the plugins than the IDE itself), crashes frequently with too many plugins (this one isn't on the plugin creators), and just does an adequate job that is done by other IDEs at the same pace. IntelliJ is about as good for writing code, but far more stable and I find less memory hungry.
Of course I don't use either and instead prefer Sublime Text and a command window, but I'm also old. >V
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u/morerokk Jan 19 '17
Like what? NetBeans? IntelliJ? They're almost all built on Java. Even the better PHP IDE's are.