Unfortunately I'm not in the path of totality but I am pretty close
Alt: A picture of the (almost but not totally covered) eclipse
Eclipse has its share of problems (and outdated UI and workflows), still I'll happily use it over IntelliJ w/o hesitation.
Funnily enough, a lot of other (Java)Senior developers who tried both are fine with Eclipse, too.
Besides the astroturfing from IDEA which is really annoying, Eclipse integrates far better with standard build tools and is our last descend Open Source IDE (Netbeans effectively being a zombie at this time).
IDEA is already pushing/forcing their own solutions/build tools/etc. to up sell their shit, once Eclipse is gone, there will be no alternative and IDEA/IntelliJ will start the entshittifaction....
People really forgot what a shit show were the 90s, paying lots of money for commercial IDEs.
I don't actually think eclipse is completely terrible (just saw the opportunity for a meme). My main problem with it is that unlike intelliJ, the UI buttons don't scale with the font size, making it pretty unusable on my HiDPI laptop.
For now I'll just stick with IntelliJ/idea IDEs (I have access to an education license for ultimate) and then if/when Idea ruins it I'll probably just try to integrate my Java workflow into either VS Code or an nvim setup
Nah, didn't mind the meme!
I totally accept that Eclipse doesn't work for and life is too short to waste it on tooling.
In that sense, good luck with your current & future setups and happy coding! :-)
I entered the world of Java a few years ago, there were already memes about eclipse back then, so I was prepared to prefer Intellij.
I tried both. Intellij is much more polished, it had some annoying bugs too, but the selling point for me was that eclipse was (is) really good at syncing every change directly to wildfly. This is a huge timesaver. The maven to eclipse plugin I think?
I've tried with jrebel but it's not as quick and reliable as with eclipse.
I am fully prepared for a solution where Intellij is better so please let me know, but no one in our organisation (which has about 50 devs) has found it.
Everyone I know switched to IntelliJ though I'd still use Eclipse if IntelliJ didn't exist tbh. IntelliJ is just too good.
It may not have been dark out but it was still pretty cool seeing shadows get messed up and seeing the sun get covered through eclipse glasses.
Definitely hoping to travel to one of the total eclipses in the later 20s/30s tho
