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[Q] Any reason to still use Eclipse?
Dunno, but I'm starting to really hate IntelliJ for its poor support for Maven. I'm trying to refactor ball of mud into a modular monolith and the amont of times IJ shows red lines in correct code, doesn't recognize new extracted module, has to have cache invalidated, or changes paths found in strings in totally unrelated contexts is beyond any sane person patience.
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I somewhat have a nostalgic stance w.r.t. Eclipse (my first full IDE that I used at Uni, I know where settings are, where/what the strong/weak points of the IDE are, etc.), and I have my plugins that I regularly use (Vrapper, TM Terminal, Notepad4e).
What is it that makes you (still) use Eclipse?
Dunno, but I'm starting to really hate IntelliJ for its poor support for Maven. I'm trying to refactor ball of mud into a modular monolith and the amont of times IJ shows red lines in correct code, doesn't recognize new extracted module, has to have cache invalidated, or changes paths found in strings in totally unrelated contexts is beyond any sane person patience.
In your case, it looks more like - "is there a case for me not to use Eclipse"? Stop drinking the koolaid - use whatever you feel comfortable using, or whatever your job mandates (shudder).
Has Eclipse stagnated? Is there any backlash from Eclipse against competitors like Intellij or VS Code?
It is not even mentioned anymore. Is the project dead?
In my humble opinion, these two aren't just IDEs but almost become ideologies, just like it used be Vim and Emacs in the days before them! The thing is that I'm touching Java after a huge gap of many years, I don't know what's the best option in the market these days. I've heard that a new dark horse called Intellij has surpassed both these in the Java world, is that true? And what happened after Netbeans went from Oracle to Apache Foundation, did they improve or make it any better? What, according to you, is a better candidate for starting Java coding in 2022?