Eclipse is a great IDE and cost free!
October 25, 2021
Eclipse is a great IDE and cost free!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
We currently use Eclipse IDE for some departments that like to use this IDE for software development. Our developers use it to quickly write code and deploy as it is easy to use and onboard new devs on it. It is also written to write unit testing for some of our applications. We also use Eclipse to deploy and test the applications using third-party tools which can be directly integrated into eclipse like TestNG.
- 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
- Workspace for Edit and Views
- Autocorrect and code completions
- Code Formatting
- Refactoring
- Quick onboarding to get new devs using the IDE
- Quick coding and deployments with less error prone
- Better support for our customers to automated support tasks
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 systems. It's a cost-benefit situation here. VS does provide a lot of integrations with Azure, etc, and also has good support for it.
Do you think Eclipse delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Eclipse's feature set?
Yes
Did Eclipse live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Eclipse go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Eclipse again?
Yes