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Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by xtracto on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:22AM (#24554096)
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.

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Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by marcosdumay on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:12PM (#24557154)
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).

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