I've used Eclipse fine for years. Eclipse has joined the larger than life targets I think like Java used to be. Maybe if Twitter releases an Eclipse plugin it will be cool again. I use it for Clojure, Scala, HTML/JS/CSS, Java and Android (yes all in the same install and no it doesn't die for me).
The only thing Eclipse sucks at for me is JSDT and apparently JBoss is committing fixes to it for the next release. In the meantime eclipse-jshint does 60% of what I need out of a javascript integration. JSDT upgrades are long overdue imo.
Also I love jeeyuls eclipse themes to give it a sleek look (I use his minimalist config). With the June release finally support dark themes, Eclipse will be prettier than ever.
edit: I just upgraded to Java 8 today to try out Nashorn. I had 0 problems with Eclipse, but I switched it back to 7 just because our latest release is on 7 so I didn't want to be the odd man out on the dev team. At home I'll probably go 8 because why not.
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I've used Eclipse fine for years. Eclipse has joined the larger than life targets I think like Java used to be. Maybe if Twitter releases an Eclipse plugin it will be cool again. I use it for Clojure, Scala, HTML/JS/CSS, Java and Android (yes all in the same install and no it doesn't die for me).
The only thing Eclipse sucks at for me is JSDT and apparently JBoss is committing fixes to it for the next release. In the meantime eclipse-jshint does 60% of what I need out of a javascript integration. JSDT upgrades are long overdue imo.
Also I love jeeyuls eclipse themes to give it a sleek look (I use his minimalist config). With the June release finally support dark themes, Eclipse will be prettier than ever.
edit: I just upgraded to Java 8 today to try out Nashorn. I had 0 problems with Eclipse, but I switched it back to 7 just because our latest release is on 7 so I didn't want to be the odd man out on the dev team. At home I'll probably go 8 because why not.