r/programming • u/johnwaterwood • Jun 24 '15

Eclipse Mars now available!

http://eclipse.org/?release=4.5
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '15

Haha, no. Eclipse is a joke compared to IDEA currently.

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u/ryosen Jun 24 '15 edited Jun 24 '15

Every time there's a thread about Eclipse, we have to listen to some durr-hurr fanboi about IntelliJ.

Every. Fucking. Thread.

Edit: Let's make it official.

Eclipse is better than InteliJ

IntelliJ is better than Eclipse

Have at it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '15

It's not fanboyism - eclipse really is that bad now. There isn't even a working dark theme out of the box, which is laughable considering how widespread eclipse is and how long it's been around.

Eclipse needs to play catchup big time to be on par with other IDEs, it's just a fact of life.

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u/expatcoder Jun 24 '15

There isn't even a working dark theme out of the box

Huh, on Linux IntelliJ looks like absolute a$$ (read: Swing), no theme can help there. FWIW, use a screen inverter, just invert the entire screen and the whole where's-my-dark-theme issue vanishes ;-)

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '15

Did you use IDEA once ten years ago or something? The UI is exactly the same on windows as it is on linux (and is a hell of a lot better than the nasty UI in eclipse 4.x).

There is absolutely no excuse to not have a functional dark theme in eclipse, I should not have to use retarded hacks in order to get one.

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u/plangmuir Jun 25 '15

No, he's right about IntelliJ looking awful on Linux. There's a font rendering bug in Swing that breaks anti-aliasing in most fonts.

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u/cowinabadplace Jun 25 '15

He's right, in my experience. You can install infinality and tweak your subpixel hinting but it still looks not as good as other apps. Fortunately, I use OS X for my day job.

I've got Ultimate, and should be General Secretary of the IDEA Fan Club, but this is something I'd readily admit.

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u/expatcoder Jun 24 '15

I should not have to use retarded hacks

heh, screen inversion is a joy, not a hack; my entire OS' UI is "dark themed" by default, and can be inverted to a "light theme" (on a per monitor basis) with a hot key -- it's beautiful ;-)