alt Hacker News> Eclipse gets a lot of automatic hate - I believe mostly since a lot of people first use it in university and struggled with their first real IDE.
More like Eclipse struggled on the kind of hardware that people could afford as a student.
My main memories of Eclipse (15 years ago at this point) are waiting forever for it to start up, though it was pretty adequate after that.
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gosub100 • today at 1:46 PM
I remember the first thing you had to do with eclipse was increase the memory limit so the obese hog called JVM could have barely enough room to wiggle around.
Right, but it’s essentially a fancy text editing environment. It should never have needed anything but barebones hardware.