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There does seem to be a lot of hate for eclipse. The complaint I always hear is that it is a pain to use. Personally I’ve always liked it, even though I’ve used the other popular IDEs.


Same here.

You will find old rants from me complaining about workspaces metadata, but that problem has been sorted for quite sometime now.


Agreed. And there's simply nothing that comes close to the power of the workspace when working on multiple projects that share dependencies.


The original idea was to replicate the Smalltalk image approach, but backed by a virtual filesystem instead.

Eclipse is Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn, after all.

It was common to have plugins corrupt its metada, but somehow it finally became quite stable.




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