Re:A Picture of Java in 2020
by pjmlp on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:24AM
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Visual Studio Code for Java is developed by Microsoft alongside Red-Hat, you should have a look.
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are there any benefits using it compared to open source eclipse with plugins?
VS Code has far more sensible defaults than Eclipse, in my opinion. If you enjoy using Eclipse, then by all means continue.
I havent used Eclipse in like 8 years, but if it is as slow and clunky as it was before then for sure VSCode is better.
I remember trying both Netbeans and Eclipse. Both were nice but very slow. Nowadays I sometimes use programs based on eclipse (birt or xmind) and God they make me happy that I'm not doing java dec on Eclipse.
Re:A Picture of Java in 2020
by marcosdumay on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:12PM
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It's not slow anymore, it's mostly as heavyweight as it always was, what means it's a lightish application nowadays.
Clunky can mean several things, and I don't think Eclipse changed in any of them since early 00's. If you consider it an specialized IDE (that means you'll download a full one for each kind of development, prepackaged), and disposable (non-upgradable, you'll download the next version and delete the current one), Eclipse is quite ok for many kinds of development (even some you do with Java).