The Fall of Eclipse

How did the once King of Java IDEs get here?
Eclipse 4

If there is one single point in time that can be attributed to the demise of Eclipse, its the launch of Eclipse 4.
Eclipse was tiding along nicely during the Eclipse 3.x era, dominating all the dev tools, when all of a sudden it decided to commit suicide. It committed the sin of rewriting all its UI code which, as Joel Spolsky has warned, can result in death (and it did).
Eclipse 3.x was a fast, native looking IDE adding useful features on each release. Intellij's Swing based UI was having a tough time keeping up with the native widgets of Eclipse. With Eclipse 4, all that took a U-turn. We had a super slow, buggy and plain ugly UI. Eclipse was set back by years.


Intellij Community Edition

All that said, Eclipse JDT remained a solid IDE for pure Java development and the go-to choice for students and open source projects looking for a free IDE.
This was killed by the launch of Intellij Community Edition.
Intellij Community and the free Android Studio meant that you literally had no reason to use Eclipse any longer for Java. You had a better IDE, and it was free.


πηγή: https://movingfulcrum.com/the-fall-of-eclipse/


Όποιος έχει windows και θέλει να δοκιμάσει το Intellij Community, μπορεί να το κατεβάσει από την ιστοσελίδα. Στο linux μπορεί να πληκτρολογήσει την εντολή:

I know right. Όπως διάβασα και σε ένα κόμμεντ κάπου στο ιντερνέτ, το Eclipse είναι ένα μεγάλο plug-in. Ακόμα και το UI είναι plug-in. Γι' αυτό παραμένει ένα από τα πιο ασταθή IDEs. Μέχρι το 2016 υπήρχε το NetBeans ως εναλλακτική, το οποίο είναι να το πετάξεις στον τοίχο. Με το intellij έφτιαξαν τα πράματα.