Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE
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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).
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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).
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Users commonly recommend using Eclipse for Java programming and Android development. They believe it is a versatile and powerful IDE that is user-friendly and helpful for any developer. Users also suggest trying out Eclipse to see if it works for you. They recommend becoming familiar with plugins in Eclipse and using it as a de-facto IDE for software development in Java and other top technologies. Additionally, they recommend considering other IDEs for languages other than Java. Users think Eclipse is simple and easy to use, but suggest trying other solutions that may be lighter. They mention that giving Eclipse more memory space can improve its loading time and highlight that it has more plugins than other IDEs. Comparison-wise, users think Eclipse is better than Netbeans and mention that it is slowly improving. Overall, users highly recommend Eclipse for developers and believe you will love it.
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December 30, 2023
Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE
- Localhost server
- Languages support
- Code revision
- Code suggestions
- Performance
- Optimization
- Some bugs you find from time to time
December 29, 2023
Easy To Use, Start Building with Eclipse !!!
- Easy To Use
- Easy To Setup
- Excellent Debug Options
- Can Add Formatting and documentation
- Git Section to maintain the code repository and resolve conflicts
- 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.
December 22, 2023
Eclipse - hasn't set yet!
- Integration system
- Best-of-breed Java development
- Flexible interface customizable, yet opinionated
- MacOS support is good-then-bad-then-good
- Dark mode is almost there, but not perfect
- Lighten up as much as possible its memory usage
July 02, 2022
One of the best development IDE for java developers
- Simple UI for development.
- A lot of plugins to use. (Unit testing plugins, code formatter plugins, etc)
- Eclipse is free.
- Very suited for managing large projects.
- Even though the UI is simple, Eclipse can work on its UI especially since beginners find it hard to find options and features.
- I feel like eclipse can optimize its performance.
- In my personal usage I am facing a lot of crashes when using multiple work spaces. I think eclipse can improve its memory management.
April 26, 2022
Free doesn't mean lacking in features
- Free of charge
- Customizable
- Plugin integration
- Easy to use
- Sometimes freezes
- It would be great to have some built-in code replacement feature
October 25, 2021
Eclipse is a great IDE and cost free!
- Free of cost
- Easy to use and onboard with simple UI
- Ton of Debugging options/features
- Code completion is really solid
- Sometimes it feels Eclipse is clunky and it takes a lot of processing power
- It is great for some languages, but not all. It was hard to code in Java for example
- Not too many integrations with other testing apps/3rd party apps
October 15, 2021
Easy to use but a versatile IDE
- Support multiple plugins installation.
- Simple & easy to use UI.
- Support multiple programming languages.
- Good debugging features.
- Becomes slow at times when multiple plugins gets added
- Intellisense doesn't work sometimes.
- Takes a lot of memory when dealing with bigger projects
October 12, 2021
One of the best IDE for Java in the market
- Debugging
- Mark of errors
- Compilation
- Updating the libraries
- The way you find some configurations of the toolkit
October 11, 2021
Eclipse: Grand Old IDE
- Unit testing
- Eclipse Marketplace
- Code completion
- UI should be modernized and could be more user friendly
- Using workspaces could be voluntary
October 11, 2021
If you want productivity choose another IDE
- Easy to set up
- bad interface
- high memory consumption
- bad usability
October 06, 2021
My review of Eclipse
- Lots of debugging features
- Auto-completion saved a lot of time for developers
- Extensibility is not as good as IntelliJ
- It uses more resources than some other IDEs. It becomes pretty slow when the project is big.
June 15, 2021
Eclipse: The IDE for Java development
- Great IDE for Java programming
- Lots of plugins and integrations, as it's open-source
- UI is simple so it's easy to find everything you need for coding
- The debugger is one of the best I've tried
- When working with bigger projects takes up a lot of RAM and sometimes it crashes
- Not so prepared for other languages than Java
May 07, 2021
Look no further than Eclipse for a Java IDE
- IntelliSense is awesome.
- Run and compile Java with ease.
- The theme and animations can affect performance.
- It does support a lot of languages, but not as good as Java.
October 01, 2020
Eclipse for Embedded Developers
- Debug.
- Compilation.
- Support for different build systems like CMAKE.
- Easy to get standard plugins from marketplace.
- RAM usage.
- Hang issue at times.
- Improve support for CMAKE. Currently, it cannot directly import CMakeList file as project.
August 11, 2020
Eclipse - a free, simple, fast, lean IDE made for learning
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- Simple layout, no complex options are provided.
- Boot up time is short compared to other IDE.
- GIT integration is a good feature.
- Good project management.
- Nice debugger and auto complete feature is good.
- There is no java-script debugger.
- No customization allowed in the theme of IDE.
- Switching perspective takes a bit much time.
- Integration of tomcat server is a bit of a headache.
- Maven Integration and Support
- Subversion/Git integration
- Eclipse has a large foot print
- Updated versions require you to build out your plugins and migrate your projects
February 11, 2020
Coffee and Eclipse
- Stable.
- User friendly.
- Add themes.
- Better integration with Git.
January 17, 2020
A great tool to work alongside SAP GUI
- ABAP development.
- Java development.
- It's a heavy tool and usually crashes.
- The UI could be more modern.
January 17, 2020
Modern Java Development IDE
- Simplified IDE makes it easy to write clean and efficient code.
- Debugging is very easy in Eclipse.
- Sometimes it crashes on loading big projects.
- More language support is required such as python.
January 16, 2020
Eclipse IDE- easy to use and free!
- Great framework for building Java applications.
- Tons of great tools to add on it.
- Running off and building something when the user doesn't ask it to.
- Loses its way often/glitches which can require a restart.
January 10, 2020
My Take on Eclipse
- Stacks of integrated features.
- Easy predictors for development.
- Documentation.
- JavaDoc integration.
December 05, 2019
Eclipse is a solid IDE for many languages and provides all the features you will need.
- Eclipse organizes imports well and does a good job presenting different programming languages.
- Eclipse auto formats source code allowing customization and increased readability.
- Eclipse reports errors automatically to users rather than logging it to the console.
- Eclipse has coding shortcuts and auto-correction features allowing faster software development.
- Eclipse setup is long, non-intuitive and not user-friendly for beginners.
- The documentation feature is so difficult that it is often not used.
- The Project explorer is hard to read and not a good organizer.
- Eclipse look and feel and not as appealing as IntelliJ.
November 21, 2019
Eclipse - Ocean of Plugins
- Integration with database drivers.
- Availability of plugins for pretty much any implementation that can be seamlessly integrated.
- Ability to profile the code to identify memory and data leaks causing the application to slow down.
- On some configurations, Eclipse can get extremely slow in responding, and its a known issue with many users facing similar problems. This is very inconsistent.
- Some versions of Eclipse does not support the automatic code completion for JavaServer Faces and JavaFX tags.
November 05, 2019
Eclipse: a decent open-source tool for development
- 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.
- While the DB integration is broad (many connectors) it isn't particularly deep. So if you need to do serious DB work on (for example) SQL Server, it is sometimes necessary to go directly to the SQL Server Studio. But for general access and manipulation, it is ok.
- The syntax formatting is sometimes painful to set up and doesn't always support things well. For example, it doesn't effectively support SCSS.
- Using it for remote debugging in a VM works pretty well, but it is difficult to set up and there is no documentation I could find to really explain how to do it. When remote debugging, the editor does not necessarily integrate the remote context. So, for example, things like Pylint don't always find the libraries in the VM and display spurious errors.
- The debugging console is not the default, and my choice is never remembered, so every time I restart my program, it's a dialog and several clicks to get it back. The debugging console has the same contextual problems with remote debugging that the editor does.
October 29, 2019
Eclipse is the IDE for SAP developers
- Eclipse, through its library of tools, is exceptionally broad and can be customized to suit just about any situation.
- Eclipse SAP HANA tools are the best way to manage a HANA database.
- Eclipse SAP ABAP tools are the preferred way to develop CDS views and modern ABAP programs.
- The biggest issue I have with Eclipse is probably its biggest selling point: it's so big that it can be quite cumbersome to get the appropriate tools and configuration set up for your use case.
- I'd like to see (maybe) a lightweight distribution of Eclipse that comes with specific tools for specific purposes (SAP specifically).