04.13.09
Why Wont Eclipse Just Die
I hate Eclipse. I hate everything about it. I remember when I was foolish and thought that something that could be extended to handle EVERYTHING was a great idea. Now I see the light. I love NetBeans, but that’s because it still hasn’t been corrupted by a plugin infestation like Eclipse. Now if you download the base Java Eclipse install, you have no problems. But I dare you install about 10 plugins and see if you still have an even partially working IDE. Better yet why don’t you try something even better. Why don’t you try IBM Websphere/ IBM Rational Web Developer (who knows what they are calling it nowadays). It takes every part of eclipse that does work, and breaks it. Then it adds in all kinds of other (broken) proprietary stuff, and before you know it you have an IDE that types your text backwards, replaces all your file extensions with double the last letter (for instance .gif becomes .giff EVERYWHERE), and if your lucky it might even give you even harder errors to find, such as having the debugger and the server looking at different versions of the source files, or the server loosing your source files entirely. I know there are people who are working hard at IBM to make this stuff work. But I’m sorry, it just doesn’t. Not only does it not work. It is by far the worst software I have ever used in my entire life. BTW all the errors I mentioned earlier (text typing backwards, etc. ) have happened to me personally, on multiple occasions. I really think sun has done it right with NetBeans. Its still young and fresh, and everything still works. If Sun is smart, they will try to stop NetBeans from becoming another Eclipse, and if they don’t, well I’ll just switch to a good old text editor I suppose. Then Maybe I can stop debugging my IDE and get back to debugging my code. Ah…if only.
Shirley said,
June 28, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I remember 316 when I said something like “I think I like netbeans more than eclipse” and you made the all-inclusive comment. I guess we see who time chose as the winner.
Moral of this story: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T USE NETBEANS! YOU’LL BECOME A POLITICAL THEORIST.
Shirley said,
June 28, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Also, as a 2 year user of Netbeans, I feel I should warn you. Don’t try and like get that “all in” version, or add. It almost acts like Eclipse. I, hand to god, have three installed instances of Netbeans on my workhorse. One for web (PHP, HTML/Xhtml/etx, javascript, Java), one just for Java, and one for the C family. I used to have their beta version for perl, but the debugger sucked and I hate perl. So… yea.