Old school Eclipse user turned Visual Studio with a penchant for the past
April 21, 2017
Old school Eclipse user turned Visual Studio with a penchant for the past
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse Luna
Our MVP was originally coded in Java so when I jumped into the code base I used Eclipse Neon as my IDE. It had been 7-8 years since I had done any real Java development so I had to re-acquaint myself with the IDE. Overall it was a familiar feeling compared to when I had used Eclipse 7-8 years ago. The syntax highlighting was very helpful and I enjoyed seeing the different font styles as compared to Visual Studio. Neon was a quick and painless installation and was up and debugging in no time.
- Dark Theme
- SnipMatch
- Content-Assist
- Could use improved speed performance.
- Better C++ support
- It allowed for the delivery of our MVP.
- It allowed us to compile our codebase into a hosted PCI compliant environment which did not support .NET.
- Greatly reduced cost of licensing.
Compared to other text editors such as Emacs or Vim Eclipse wins the day. However when compared to Visual Studio I still prefer Visual Studio; perhaps because I have been using it primarily for the past 9 years.