L505 wrote:
I still don't know what it is though.
I've always wondered what that thing was. I've heard people using it and say
it's great. But for their marketing and sales section (lol), they desparately
need some screenshots on the front page, because I can't figure out what it is.
The following statement confuses me even more:
" an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular."
Eclipse is indeed an extensible IDE because it has a modular approach with
plugins.
Probably the best known purpose of Eclipse is the Java IDE. It has powerful
refactoring, auto completion, member completion, error reporting - with
automatically suggested solutions - and code folding support.
Besides Java, there is also a project for a C/C++ IDE. Another interesting
porject is VE, the Visual Editor, which allows one to graphically edit Swing
widgets. It is not the fastest environment around, but the support for layout
managers is quite powerful in comparison with typing all kinds of methods call
to construct a form.
Besides these 'official' projects, there are other people who have based their
IDEs for their own (application embedded) programming language on Eclipse.
For Java, I often use Eclipse - unless it is a very small program, because
Eclipse is indeed quite 'large'. But for Pascal I'd really prefer the Lazarus
IDE. It is fast, and it is written in Pascal. Extending Lazarus will probably
lead to the extension of the FPC, the FCL and the LCL. Since Eclipse is written
in Java, I think the integration between Eclipse and FPC/LCL would not be
simple nor seamingless.
Regards,
Bram
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