Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform

Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by lukevp on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:08PM (#22782568)

Has Eclipse improved in recent versions? I do .net so I use Visual Studio 2019 mostly, and just used Eclipse back in the day for Java development, and then for Android. When Google did a fork of JetBrains as Android Studio I felt it was a pleasant improvement and an indication that the Android community wasn’t happy with Eclipse either, but I may have read too much into this change.

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Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by zmmmmm on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:45PM (#22782758)

It's improved a lot (I use it every day, alongside IntelliJ and they both have pros and cons, but I probably prefer Eclipse) - but this isn't really related to the classic Eclipse IDE as far as I can tell. It's something completely separate.

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Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by lukevp on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:49PM (#22782787)

I see, that’s interesting. Thanks for the update on Eclipse. Release notes for dirigible said they switched to xterm.js, I’ve been using that lib a lot in both an electron and a web app and it’s been impressive.

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Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by pjmlp on Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:05AM (#22784053)

Replacing Eclipse with InteliJ was and still is a bin pain in the ....

Go over to any Android developer channel and see the discussion threads every time a new "stable" release comes out. Always with regressions, you need a gaming rig for any kind of usable development workflow, and C and C++ tooling get always the last bullet on support features.

Speaking of C and C++, it took almost two years, until InteliJ decided to create CLion, for Android Studio to provide any kind of support going forward to those NDK users left abandoned on Eclipse CDT with outdated Android plugins. Had InteliJ not released CLion, to this day Google would most likely not provided anything to NDK users.

So no, not everyone of us is happy with Android Studio.

If anything it made me appreciate Eclipse even more, given that it doesn't make my fans spin all the time, I can keep using my existing hardware for Java development, doesn't need ten finger shortcuts, has an incremental compiler, shows errors and Javadoc without having to do additional configurations.

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Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by dragonsh on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:10AM (#22783860)

Eclipse foundation has also developed a new modern alternative to VSCode compatible with VSCode extension called Theia [1]. Give it a try.

[1] https://www.theia-ide.org

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Re:Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform by vips7L on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:40PM (#22783067)

The eclipse language server powers the vs-code Java plugin. I've found it to be quite good.

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