Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill M Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: IDE's Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:29:37 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ep43mLzI/jofXxL2elOFPA"; logging-data="12887"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Dm3ugO3YcoPE8PM8xSfEn5+xNpF8sm+A=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:r38q8BkDhmlGKoN6Rz+pfviyBm0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.development.apps:379 Ersek, Laszlo wrote, On 1/9/2012 4:55 AM: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Bill M wrote: > >> So you wouldn't recommend Eclipse because it's a little on the bulky >> side? Or does it have other, less than redeeming, qualities? > > Just last night I've heard Eclipse is perfect for Java, and flaky for C. > When I used it before, it occurred with proprietary plugins (proprietary > language, proprietary visual designer), and it was about the worst UI > experience of my life. Everything was wrong about it; the > uninterruptible builds, the missing dependency tracking (or discovery) > for incremental builds, the horrible allocation of screen real estate, > losing recent changes when saving buffers to files (!!!) during > background parsing, and so on. > > I also used it briefly for pure Java builds & source browsing, and it > was unbearably slow. > > You might want check this out: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments > > > Laszlo I'm curious as to why ddd is not on this list.