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Name: Anonymous 2009-03-31 10:57

hey /prog/, what's your stance on eclipse? any of you using it? if yes, for what languages?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-31 20:22

Eclipse is probably the best Java editor available (Netbeans is supposed to be good too, but I haven't tried it). The refactoring features are all 100% semantics-preserving, and the autocompletion has some limited static code-flow analysis which is pretty cool. For example, you can do this:

if (shit instanceof Lol) {
   shit.
    //  ^^^^^
    // If you put the cursor here and press Ctrl+Space, the editor
    // knows you're dealing with an instance of Lol, shows you
    // methods from Lol, and auto-inserts the cast for you if
    // you choose one.
}


However, installing several different packaged features (for example, Java and Haskell and Ruby) into the same copy of Eclipse is always a huge nightmare. Even if the dependencies match, you still end up having menus clogged with choices, high heap usage, etc.


Also, asking for C++ auto completion is like asking for an infinite loop detector

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