OK - but has not improved in 10 years
January 25, 2018
OK - but has not improved in 10 years
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
For Java development of custom and vendor apps.
Pros
- OK developer experience
- Good integration with Spring tooling
- Easy to install, well-used by the industry
Cons
- Its intellisense needs to get better - has not improved in 10+ years. Much worse than Visual Studio
- Frequently the maven integration breaks and it requires a lot of manual tinkering to get the build to work
- Needs a better project file structure to allow for easier import of projects
- Let us perform Java development, but we cannot quantify it
- Free, so that's beneficial
- We have not estimated decreased developer productivity of using Eclipse vs Visual Studio, but I would estimate a week a year
- visual studio
Very much inferior, worse tooling, slower, harder to use, worse predictive autocomplete, worse integration with package managers
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