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doodlesdev • today at 2:53 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

  > everything seems worse than eclipse
I would say the answer is that's not the general perception of the software. I'm personally migrating out of VSCode, because having to use the OpenVSX registry to have open-source builds makes me mad (I've since migrated to Zed for now, since I've never adapted well to neovim nor emacs).

In general, I believe most people see VSCode as "good enough". Maybe not the best text editor, but it's good enough at everything it does and extensible enough to the point that there's really no point to go for anything else unless you have a really good reason to.

   > Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor.
My previous answer is thinking about editors in general. But in the case of Eclipse I'd say you're right LOL.

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com2kid • today at 4:29 AM

People forget that there was a period of time during which the Java runtime installer tried to install actual adware. You had to jump through hoops to deselect adware from being forced onto your machine, it was infuriating.

Setting up a new machine, I could choose between Eclipse (free, took forever to open, slow, asked me a million questions before it let me start working) or Visual Studio (cost money, incredibly powerful, written in C++ and was really damn fast.)

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jen20 • today at 3:11 AM

“Java” does not explain why Eclipse is irrelevant where IntelliJ is thriving.