Comments on: Why Do I Hate Eclipse?

By: Paulus

Paulus — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:22 +0000

Nice article and glad I’m not alone! After getting an SSD I had to reinstall my system including Eclipse. I’ve installed the same flavour that I had previously and set it up in the same way.
At first I just copied my old project folders to the new workspace, but the projects didn’t show up. If I tried to import it, it would complain that the folder already existed (no shit). So I had to create a new project with the same name and import the files from into it. Now it shows up, great.. until I got weird errors. Restart+refresh and the errors were gone. Now comes the fun part: obviously I had to fix some paths in the project configuration to reflect the changes to my filesystem. Access Denied when writing changes to .classpath! Notepad doesn’t seem to have a problem saving. As a matter of fact, the only program that throws an error is Eclipse. Kind of ironic considering that it’s the only program that uses the .classpath file in the first place.. Just got rid of the piece of shit and I already feel much better :) Eclipse = spawn of the devil. It should be taken out and shot in the back of the head.

@Moo
Take a look at vs-android: http://www.gavpugh.com/2011/02/04/vs-android-developing-for-android-in-visual-studio/

Link is self-explanatory I think. Good luck everyone!

By: eclipse | dp

eclipse | dp — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:44:04 +0000

[...] a side note: this isn’t supposed to be a promotion for eclipse, as it is written here, choosing the right IDE is a difficult process; i just have to work with eclipse and i like to keep [...]

By: Moo

Moo — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:15:05 +0000

Imagine my disappointment when I found out that Google had chosen Eclipse as the IDE for Android. Android development could be so much fun, but it isn’t because of the IDE. The graphical designer is pathetic, and not just because designing for multiple screen sizes is hard. Eclipse can’t synchronise between the properties view and the graphical view, which means that making changes to a app’s design is fraught.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:08:52 +0000

Amen to this article. I’ve used multiple IDEs in different languages and am in the same boat. Every time I have to go back to eclipse, I’m hoping that they have fixed the bugs and made the UI better, but after 10 years they still have the same garbage. Just like you, you try to tell a Java dev that eclipse is a joke, but they just don’t get it. They learned how to use it in school and that’s all they know. It takes me 10 times as long to get it all setup, then if you change anything it breaks your setup and you have to do it all over again. Bah. It’s trying to be too much and do everything, then on top of that there are multiple flavors, so it makes it a pain to work with someone else that is sporting a different version. Come on. I’m all for open source, but this thing is out of control.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:37:19 +0000

I absolutely hate the lack of customization for Eclipse. I want my step into/step over/etc debug buttons on their own special toolbar. But mostly, I WANT NORMAL TABS. I hated JBuilder because I couldn’t ctrl-tab between open source files… but at least JBuilder had real tabs. Eclipse shows two or three tabs tops, and then puts the rest into a submenu. And ctrl-tab doesn’t work in Eclipse either!

Also, project files would be nice, big projects NEVER import correctly.

In short, I miss JBuilder. And seeing how JBuilder was a steaming pile, that says a lot about my opinion of Eclipse.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:29:26 +0000

Go team Eclipse yeah!

For me Eclipse is a POS because the IDE gets in the way of coding and productivity. I see the rest as a matter of personal taste.

Over 1.2Gb just to edit some files. Go team Eclipse yeah!

Many bugs which hinder productivity such as hangs and crashes. Go team Eclipse yeah!

Freeze for over 1min after every save of a file. CTRL-S is my best mate so this really annoys me. Yes I have turned off all the “productivity” boosters such as format on save, org. imports on save etc. Go team Eclipse yeah!

In short Go team Eclipse yeah! You POS!

By: Emir Bugra KOKSALAN

Emir Bugra KOKSALAN — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:45:52 +0000

i hate eclipse becouse i cant install java visual editor :( there is built in editor in netbeans..

By: JCLL

JCLL — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:04:31 +0000

+ 1 for me.

By: Yi

Yi — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:14:01 +0000

I agree m2eclipse is a nightmare. Eclipse itself is not too bad when writing simple programs or academic stuff. However in an enterprise environment with so many modules and pakcages it just couldn’t handle it nicely. I particularly dislike the IDE provided by 3rd party vendors based on Eclipse. They added so many stuff that are useless in most scenarios and use a lot of resources. In Spring Tool Suite sometimes I just open a couple of XML files it can be using more than 1.4GB RAM. There are numerous times I need to wait for more than 30 seconds just by clicking at some empty space in the editor and the IDE says no response. Moreover, sometimes the class issues which seems so obvious in command line can take half a day to resolve in Eclipse IDE.

By: Monte

Monte — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:01:17 +0000

I hate ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IntelliJ IDEA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!