Eclipse vs. Sublime Text

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Eclipse
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).N/A
Sublime Text
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.
$80
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$80.00
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Free/Freemium Version
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Considered Both Products
Eclipse
Chose Eclipse
IntelliJ beats Eclipse in supporting other programming languages.
Chose Eclipse
I choose Eclipse above other similar integrated development environments because Eclipse, apart from being free, has a wide community behind it that constantly adds and upgrades plugins and extensions that allow you to do and build basically anything using Eclipse. It also has …
Chose Eclipse
1. Eclipse is easy to use.
2. when you are new to building something you can go for Eclipse as it provides a clean UI.
3. Provide support to connect with other tools and technology.
Chose Eclipse
IntelliJ is a good IDE as well. Any motivated user can't go wrong focusing on one and then deeply learning it, and it will pay off in productivity. Note of course that one is free the other is not! I find Eclipse is stronger at managing very large projects.
Chose Eclipse
Compared to IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse is free of charge and that is the main advantage for me. Over the time I got used to Eclipse, I didn't want to switch even though I could, because all I need is there and it works like a charm. Compared to NetBeans, I found the community of …
Chose Eclipse
Visual Studio is a better solution for larger applications and organizations. Eclipse is free and good for small companies/applications. VS also integrated well with the Microsoft environment. However, Eclipse is not tied to any environment and can be used with multiple OS …
Chose Eclipse
Above all, the great variety of plugins that eclipse offers you for your developments, allowing you to consume personalized libraries that can help you in your development. Also its implementation is simpler and faster allowing you to establish a development environment even …
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse stands out with its feature set, reliability, and being completely free of charge. I have previously used NetBeans but had reliability issues with it, at least on Windows version. IDEA has modern UI and is significantly more user friendly than Eclipse; however, the free …
Chose Eclipse
[In my opinion,] Eclipse is the worst IDE for java right now.
Chose Eclipse
They are both great IDEs and we use both. IntelliJ may have a larger community so there are more plugins available, which means it could be a better choice for some specific types of projects.
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse is far better than NetBeans. But when compared to IntellijIdea Eclipse is a good choice when it comes to handling large projects and costs. Eclipse has room to improve on its UI and IntelliSense.
Chose Eclipse
As previously said, Eclipse is one of the most complete and useful tools for Java development. And as a plus, it's open-source and free, so you won't beat that price-quality relation. When starting with Java projects, you won't fail with Eclipse. But, if you are getting into …
Chose Eclipse
As compared to Netbeans, Eclipse is much faster. NetBeans needs to have JDK 1.8 which sometimes creates problems if your system already has a higher version installed, besides it has a glassfish server which is hard to configure. Integration of MySQL or other database is …
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse beats all other Java IDEs in my honest opinion. I've tried NetBeans (among others) in the past for Java projects, but didn't see the same value which Eclipse provides. I have moved over to Visual Studio Code for Node.js, React Native and other JavaScript specific …
Chose Eclipse
First thing, Eclipse is free. So zero cost as compared to other alternatives. Eclipse has tons of tools/plugins for better development/testing, helping devs, making their lives easier.
Chose Eclipse
I think Eclipse is best for Java while the other products, for example, NetBeans, is good for PHP. Visual Studio is really good for C#. I would still say Eclipse is really good overall, but awesome for Java developers.
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse could be replaced by Netbeans or WebStorm, but these last two don't have an ABAP development tools plugin (not that I know of at least).
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse offers all the features in the other IDEs but without any cost. It also is memory efficient as compared to other IDEs. Various themes are available in eclipse and we can customize it according to our needs very easily. The Windows Toolkit allows us to build desktop …
Chose Eclipse
As I already said, Eclipse might not have all the features supported by IntelliJ. However, the variety of plugins available in Eclipse make it much flexible to work with. Another main reason to go for this product was because of price (free). Since I worked for a startup, the …
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse was used for 3-5 years until IntelliJ became the more preferred IDE because IntelliJ has better code formatting, presentation, and navigation between different types of files. IntelliJ has a shorter learning curve and setup is easier especially for less experienced …
Chose Eclipse
Eclipse and NetBeans are open-sourced and does not require a license to use the software. However, Eclipse has a wide selection of plugins to choose from to integrate any tools within the workspace, making development more accessible, and reducing the developer effort.
Chose Eclipse
I've used Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, and VSCode. Visual Studio was very good but highly oriented towards a rather limited set of uses. I chose to use Eclipse for two primary reasons:

First, it was more flexible, Open Source, and supported a much wider variety of languages …
Chose Eclipse
Visual Studio Code can also be used for CDS development. It is quite lightweight and useful when developing for web environments. Eclipse however, has an ABAP environment as well as the HANA tools. This makes Eclipse (in my opinion) a better solution for a more well-rounded …
Sublime Text
Chose Sublime Text
I used to code on Adobe Dreamweaver before. Dreamweaver software was very heavy for my code, but Sublime Text is a much lighter software compared to Dreamweaver, and I can easily use Sublime Text anywhere because its software takes up very little space.
Chose Sublime Text
Easier to use, runs very solid (especially on Mac OS). Syntax coloring is the best. Possibilities to add plugins and custom things is huge. Connection with Github works great (never tested this with the other tools though).

Also, our company has chosen this tool so at my current …
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime Text is free and offers a cleaner coding interface. Even if I forgot to save updates to a file, the next time I open it, it's still present. Sublime Text boots faster than the other text editors and is also easy to deploy. Memory consumption of Sublime Text is lesser …
Chose Sublime Text
These are all great but are either too expensive (versus free) or too complicated to hit the ground running.
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to visual studio ide. We also chose sublime because it has much …
Chose Sublime Text
Compared to any other text editor I've used, Sublime Text has the best user interface. On Macs, Windows, and Linux, Sublime Text makes editing easier. When I couldn't use Notepad++ on a Windows machine, I used Sublime Text instead. My colleagues started using Sublime Text, so I …
Chose Sublime Text
Even if VIM is a must use for every programmer, [especially] if you work with server files via ssh or similar, for daily use its learning curve is big and difficult. Instead, sublime requires almost no knowledge to start using it and, in a local instance, their performance is …
Chose Sublime Text
Other than Sublime Text, I have not used any other code editors, so it would be hard for me to compare Sublime Text with its competitors.
Chose Sublime Text
We've used both Notepad++ and Atom; both are great but nothing really beats the Sublime Text UI; super intuitive and friendly and does everything you need without overwhelming you with stuff you don't. Other options are free, but for our organization, it was well worth the …
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime Text has a bit more flexibility and doesn't take up as much space or memory as some of the larger IDEs. Notepad++ is customizable too, but Sublime Text is better suited for code editing in my experience.
Chose Sublime Text
Visual Studio Code was honestly a tough competitor to Sublime for multi-language projects, and ultimately edged it out for some of the teams I worked with. It's library functionality was far superior, it is 100% open source vs ads, and it has a similar speed. Pycharm and …
Chose Sublime Text
Before using Visual Studio Code, we were using Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver worked well back then, but we were amazed at how much faster and more intuitive Sublime Text was. That's the time that we got into SASS, which made things go so much faster and more efficiently. Also …
Chose Sublime Text
While Microsoft Visual Studio Code has a lot more to offer, it can sometimes be a little too much and get too complicated. I like to keep things simple in text editors which makes Sublime Text my preferred editor. There are a lot of packages that can be installed for Sublime …
Chose Sublime Text
I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to …
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime Text beat out everything else we tried.

Visual Studio Code which recently became more popular is not as fast and serves a different market than Sublime's general text editing.
Chose Sublime Text
The main reason I moved from using Notepad++ to use Sublime Text was that I moved from Windows OS to Mac OS....
Notepad++ is not supported on Windows based systems, so I had no choice.
But my guess is that over the years, I would have probably moved to Sublime Text anyway, since …
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime Text has a better UI compared to any other text editors I have used. Easier to edit text on Sublime Text, even on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.
Chose Sublime Text
Sublimes text is comparable with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and NotePad++. However, VS code is far better than [Sublime Text] in terms of the plugins and extensions available in the market. [...] Sublime consumes [...] less memory, compared to the VS code, [which …
Chose Sublime Text
I use google keep for taking notes on the go and sharing with my colleagues, sharing tasks for example but for my professional coding I use sublime text, because it has all the features I need to do my work, I use google note on mobile devices but I use sublime on my desktop or …
Chose Sublime Text
On certain levels all have certain pros and cons but Sublime has community support and a huge future ahead due to its features, making it lead all the others.
Chose Sublime Text
More reliable and intuitive than TextMate or Atom and more feature-filled than an Emacs. The colors/syntax highlighting is superior.
Chose Sublime Text
For users who care a lot about performance (and also battery usage), ST3 is going to win almost every time because its natively built on whatever OS you are running on whereas VSCode is built on top of Electron, which is widely known to have poor performance. As an anecdote, on …
Chose Sublime Text
Sublime Text is powerful, stable, versatile, and lightweight. It's also very affordable, with straightforward licensing terms. Many of the other options that we explored met some of these qualifications, but only Sublime Text checks all of those boxes. For example, NetBeans and …
Chose Sublime Text
I think Sublime Text is more elegant and simple to use.
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User Ratings
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9.8
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9.0
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Configurability
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Ease of integration
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User Testimonials
EclipseSublime Text
Likelihood to Recommend
Eclipse is recommended for enabling the user community to be self-reliant in scenarios where the mode of operation demands agile, on the fly accurate reporting, such as during month ends for reconciliation purposes. The urgency and sensitivity of such situations result in a lot of stress with quick turnaround times but with the ability of Eclipse and Hana views, the reliance on IT could be minimized. Also, IT could leverage the power of Eclipse to develop Hana views without having to do the traditional route of ABAP developments. It might be less appropriate for situations where the agile and dynamic nature of the operations is not a necessity.
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My CMS has a small window in which I can edit custom HTML/CSS. It can be expanded some, but not as much as I would like. It also displays all code as dark text on a white background. On a page where I am doing extensive custom coding, it is helpful to see it in a larger window and in a color-coded display so that I don't have to strain my eyes as hard. Especially when I'm trying to scan for specific elements and target issues and so that I don't have to scroll endlessly in a tiny window.
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Pros
  • It is very good at managing many files under edit. I like the ability to manage multiple projects and multiple files. It supports a wide variety of file formats with type-specific syntax formatting.
  • I like the integrated debugging facility. In particular, we used a remote file system debugger with Python in external VMs to great effect.
  • I like the ability to access multiple types of databases in the integrated development environment. It provides connectors for a wide variety of databases and supports most basic DB access methods.
  • GIT integration is very effective. You can easily manage repositories and connect them to projects, and the project integration into GIT is virtually seamless.
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  • Sublime Text does an incredible job with appropriate color coding and syntax definitions; makes code extremely readable
  • Tab selection is very well done; easy to see which files have been changed and to compare across multiple files
  • Auto-complete is surprisingly effective and accurate
  • Support for Apple M1 processors already
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Cons
  • Sometimes Maven projects are not able to connect to third-party libraries, this issue is very intermediate
  • Adding some external plugins will make Eclipse very slow and consume a lot of memory
  • Compatibility with other IDE e.g. Also observes if we import some other IDE project to Eclipse it gives some weird problems.
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  • In a world of free and open text editors, Sublime Text does ask for donations. You can use the product freely with only a very infrequent popup asking for donations. You can use it however long you like without paying, but it is well worth it to donate to.
  • People not used to the functionality may need a bit of time to get up to speed using the documentation.
  • An integrated terminal would be nice, but that is just a quibble. It's hard to find many cons with Sublime Text.
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Likelihood to Renew
I love this product, what makes it one of the best tool out in the market is its ability to function with a wide range of languages. The online community support is superb, so you are never stuck on an issue. The customization is endless, you can keep adding plugins or jars for more functionalities as per your requirements. It's Free !!!
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I love this application. It has helped to improve my work. Also, I became so used to the shortcuts that It's hard for me to change to another editor.
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Usability
It has everything that the developer needs to do the job. Few things that I have used in my day-to-day development 1. Console output. 2. Software flash functionality supporting multiple JTAG vendors like J-LINK. 3. Debugging capabilities like having a breakpoint, looking at the assembly, looking at the memory etc. this also applies to Embedded boards. 4. Plug-in like CMake, Doxygen and PlantUML are available.
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This is a programmers tool. As such a lot of the features and benefits are lost on a non-technical user. To get the most out of the tool you need to have a basic crash course in how it works and what it can do. The documentation and community are good, but it takes a bit of time to get up to speed.
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Performance
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It has many handy hacks and shortcuts which enhances its performace.
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Support Rating
I gave this rating because Eclipse is an open-source free IDE therefore no support system is available as far as I know. I have to go through other sources to solve my problem which is very tough and annoying. So if you are using Eclipse then you are on your own, as a student, it is not a big issue for me but for developers it is a need.
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Never had to use their customer support before. There is ample documentation online so it's straightforward to find a solution to any problem you might encounter. For example, I needed to convert a string of HTML code to a properly formatted HTML file to "modify." Easy to do when there are so many users of the product who have needed to do that same thing before.
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Alternatives Considered
As previously said, Eclipse is one of the most complete and useful tools for Java development. And as a plus, it's open-source and free, so you won't beat that price-quality relation. When starting with Java projects, you won't fail with Eclipse. But, if you are getting into other programming languages, or your projects are getting bigger and bigger, you might consider switching to another solution.
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Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to Visual Studio IDE. We also chose sublime because it has much better support for the majority of languages(especially Python) and I primarily work with python.
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Return on Investment
  • Eclipse handles numerous languages and a multitude of features, so many features that it requires a deep learning curve for users. The setup is complex and requires someone with expertise or background with software implementation.
  • Eclipse is free and offers user community support which is a huge benefit.
  • Eclipse has solid Subversion integration which saves costs for a firm that is already using Subversion as their configuration management tool.
  • Eclipse lacks the ability to support mobile application development which is a negative impact for the need to deliver mobile apps.
  • Eclipse is open source which means it is constantly updating features and functions extending the learning curve for users.
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  • Sublime is a cost-effective option for the company, as it isn't prohibitively expensive, and our team prefers it to other options.
  • Speed, customization, and scalability are just some of the advantages of using Sublime Text in our IT department.
  • Our work has been slowed down by faster coding and more accessible debugging apps, both good and bad.
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