Garret Crisler wrote:
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What are the advantages to Eclipse?? My computer is about 1 year old
and this Eclipse program slows it down like no other program I have
ever run, why is this?
Is eclipse a generic program that tries to satisfy everybody and in
the end satisfies nobody because of its complexity.
I think Eclipse has a number of advantages. However, the bottom line is
it will soon be Eclipse or nothing. Almost every major tools vendor has
committed to Eclipse. In a year or two the only IDEs in the entire
software industry will be Visual Studio and Eclipse.
Eclipse started out as a Java tool. Everything else has been added on,
and in some ways it is still a little Java-centric. However, it does
support C well. In a year or so I think you will find it has matured to
something much more language neutral.
I first ran Eclipse on a really clunky old notebook running windows 98,
and it was OK. It is *really* slow to start up on even a fast machine,
and that can be annoying. Once it gets started I don't find its speed a
problem.
Regards,
Steve
