Pros and Cons of Eclipse 2025

Name: 15 Years of the Eclipse Foundation
Uploaded: 2019-01-31T22:06:10.000Z
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Description: 15 Years of the Eclipse Foundation

Overview

What is Eclipse?

Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).

Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE

Rating: 7 out of 10

May 27, 2024

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We use Eclipse as the main development environment for building software. In my personal case, I use it to develop web applications with Magnolia CMS product. Eclipse has diff...

José Antonio Jaramillo Vela

Engineer - Engineering

Software Engineer

knowmad mood

3 years of experience

Easy To Use, Start Building with Eclipse !!!

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 29, 2023

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1. Eclipse takes care of things like formatting, documentation, packaging, etc, which saves around 20 % of the time so that we can focus on developing actual business logic wh...

Nikhil Puniyani

Engineer - Information Technology

Senior Software Engineer In Test

EPAM Systems

6 years of experience

Eclipse - hasn't set yet!

Rating: 10 out of 10

December 22, 2023

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Our platform unlocks the most power from it when users use the full IDE experience, which is powered by Eclipse. Many years ago we had our own UI but developers asked for basi...

Eddie Galvez

Director - Engineering

Chief Architect

Tibco

15 years of experience

One of the best development IDE for java developers

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 2, 2022

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We use Eclipse for writing java code and we have created an Eclipse plugin for our development as well. My day to day work is involved with Eclipse as I am a java developer. D...

Tharsanan Kurukulasingam

Engineer - Information Technology

Software Engineer

Enactor

4 years of experience

Easy to use but a versatile IDE

Rating: 9 out of 10

October 15, 2021

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Eclipse has been used very extensively all across our development teams for building variety of software products. I consider it to be one of the most reliable & versatile...

Ejaz Hussain

Professional - Information Technology

Ps Consultant

Genesys

1 year of experience

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What is Eclipse?

Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Free/Freemium Version
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Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.8.

The most common users of Eclipse are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE

Rating: 7 out of 10

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May 27, 2024

José Antonio Jaramillo Vela

Software Engineer

knowmad mood (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

Pros

Localhost server
Languages support
Code revision
Code suggestions

Cons

Performance
Optimization
Some bugs you find from time to time

Easy To Use, Start Building with Eclipse !!!

Rating: 9 out of 10

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December 29, 2023

Nikhil Puniyani

Senior Software Engineer In Test

EPAM Systems (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

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Verified User

6 years of experience

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Pros

Easy To Use
Easy To Setup
Excellent Debug Options
Can Add Formatting and documentation
Git Section to maintain the code repository and resolve conflicts

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.

Eclipse - hasn't set yet!

Rating: 10 out of 10

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December 22, 2023

Eddie Galvez

Chief Architect

Tibco (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

15 years of experience

Pros

Integration system
Best-of-breed Java development
Flexible interface customizable, yet opinionated

Cons

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

One of the best development IDE for java developers

Rating: 9 out of 10

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July 02, 2022

Tharsanan Kurukulasingam

Software Engineer

Enactor (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

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4 years of experience

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.