Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by Slackwise on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:25PM (#16450159)

> unlike Intellij, which sells its IDE

The fancy version costs money, yes, but the community edition is free and Apache licensed. Here's the source code: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

> is there another major cause for most of the world drifting to the inferior choice?

I've used both Eclipse and IntelliJ, as well as JetBrain's "ReSharper" tool in Visual Studio, and while the UI is obviously different, and in some ways better, some ways worse than Eclipse, the actual functionality and feature set of IntelliJ is clearly superior to Eclipse, especially all the refactoring and code smell tools.

The feature list is just incredible and constantly increasing: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/

Also, IdeaVim is way superior to Eclim, if you care about Vim keybindings and modal editing.

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by ryukafalz on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:11PM (#16450445)

Unfortunately, Google's fork (Android Studio) is not open source. Previous versions of Android Studio (based on Eclipse) were.

Clearest example I've seen in a long time of why copyleft licenses are important.

EDIT: I was wrong about this, see below thread.

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by noarchy on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:48PM (#16450638)

You can find instructions on both getting the source code, and building from source here: http://tools.android.com/build

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by ryukafalz on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:37PM (#16450874)

Ah! I stand corrected. I wasn't able to find a link to that info anywhere from the download page (https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html).

I was also confused before when browsing through Google's Android repos because they don't seem to do any development on the master branch: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/maste... ...instead developing on project or release-specific branches: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studi...

I have to say, I'm glad to have been wrong!

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by richdougherty on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:47PM (#16450286)

I didn't know the free version was Apache licensed. That's great!

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by nambit on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:31PM (#16450548)

How is IdeaVim superior to Eclim? I can use my vim plugins with Eclim?

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