Unfortunately I’m not in the path of totality but I am pretty close
Alt: A picture of the (almost but not totally covered) eclipse
You’ve fallen into my trap card, I really just wanted everyone else’s eclipse photos here
A couple of profs tell the students at our school to use it. Students would ask me (a tutor) “can you help me with this problem with eclipse?” and then point to the worst UI anyone ever created. I want to like it, because open source and stuff, but it’s just horrible
It’s fine. Super flexible platform for any development environment. I’d take it over Notepad++.
Why not use VIM though?
I don’t like having to unplug my computer to exit the IDE. Takes a while and I often lose my changes.
Pro tip: Press Esc, then type
:wwhich means “write” to save the changes, and then unplug the computer and reboot.Perfect! You’re a data saver.
That’s the oldest joke in the book. Everybody knows you don’t need to unplug your computer, you can run “sudo reboot” from within vim just fine!
!sudo shutdown -r now. Or just:xorZZ, but I guess those don’t fit the motif of this very tired silly joke.
I find it quicker to turn off the power through the breaker box. It’s faster so you can get back to working sooner.
Nice shot! Totality was a true sight to behold, but partial eclipses are really awesome too.
Seeing wisps of clouds roll over it was pretty nice. Definitely recommending seeing one, even just once.
It’s not so bad TBH. As in if I couldn’t get IntelliJ on my machine, I’d use it.
I’d go out of my way to install the necessary plugins on vscode before I’d use Eclipse. I can’t even figure out how to open my damn project that I accidentally closed FFS!!
Sounds like a skill issue.
Yeah… I prefer to blame the tool (one could argue that I’m the tool)
Eclipse was the reason why I gave up on programming in middle school.
It’s a hot mess. Or it was 10 years when I was last forced to use it.
I remember there was one setting I needed to adjust from time to time. However the menu tree it was in had been removed leaving it a orphaned tree. So you couldn’t get to it through the ui. The only way to get to the setting was to go to a unrelated page in the documentation and click on the goto link in it. That would launch the menu that otherwise didn’t exist. From there you could back up and get into the menu to adjust the setting.
Sounds like some plugin issue.
Obligatory xkcd
It may not have been dark out but it was still pretty cool seeing shadows get messed up and seeing the sun get covered through eclipse glasses.
Definitely hoping to travel to one of the total eclipses in the later 20s/30s tho
Vscodium ftw
Eclipse has its share of problems (and outdated UI and workflows), still I’ll happily use it over IntelliJ w/o hesitation.
Funnily enough, a lot of other (Java)Senior developers who tried both are fine with Eclipse, too.
Besides the astroturfing from IDEA which is really annoying, Eclipse integrates far better with standard build tools and is our last descend Open Source IDE (Netbeans effectively being a zombie at this time).
IDEA is already pushing/forcing their own solutions/build tools/etc. to up sell their shit, once Eclipse is gone, there will be no alternative and IDEA/IntelliJ will start the entshittifaction…
People really forgot what a shit show were the 90s, paying lots of money for commercial IDEs.
I don’t actually think eclipse is completely terrible (just saw the opportunity for a meme). My main problem with it is that unlike intelliJ, the UI buttons don’t scale with the font size, making it pretty unusable on my HiDPI laptop.
For now I’ll just stick with IntelliJ/idea IDEs (I have access to an education license for ultimate) and then if/when Idea ruins it I’ll probably just try to integrate my Java workflow into either VS Code or an nvim setup
Nah, didn’t mind the meme!
I totally accept that Eclipse doesn’t work for and life is too short to waste it on tooling.
In that sense, good luck with your current & future setups and happy coding! :-)
Idea ftw
Overrated
I entered the world of Java a few years ago, there were already memes about eclipse back then, so I was prepared to prefer Intellij.
I tried both. Intellij is much more polished, it had some annoying bugs too, but the selling point for me was that eclipse was (is) really good at syncing every change directly to wildfly. This is a huge timesaver. The maven to eclipse plugin I think?
I’ve tried with jrebel but it’s not as quick and reliable as with eclipse.
I am fully prepared for a solution where Intellij is better so please let me know, but no one in our organisation (which has about 50 devs) has found it.
I think you might be my neighbor. This is the exact same view I had except the tree was on the left.
Everyone I know switched to IntelliJ though I’d still use Eclipse if IntelliJ didn’t exist tbh. IntelliJ is just too good.
