Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Christopher Larrieu <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:54:28 -0800

Can't agree more.  I've tried off and on to like the various IDE's du
jour through the years, and I always find that nothing beats good old
emacs for serious coding.

While I expect to be working with eclipse as an application platform, I
imagine I'll mostly be coding in emacs, using eclipse for the things
that it does well, like refactoring.

Chris

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 14:26 -0500, Kay-Uwe Kasemir wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:06 , Claude Saunders wrote:
> >  - Claude "I don't use an IDE, but that doesn't stop me from having  
> > an opinion." Saunders
> In the (distant) past, I had used Turbo Pascal, Borland C++,
> Visual Studio, KDeveloper, and every time came back
> to vi, make, emacs.
> 
> Eclipse was the first IDE that really appealed to me
> - it doesn't force you to create your project in a specific way.
> You can locate your sources and binary in pretty much any place,
> and also import existing projects.
> - the java support is really nice: completion, compile-as-you-type
> error checking
> - the absolute killer is the refactoring.
> Not just rename classes, but extract sections of code into their
> own subroutine, extract methods into interfaces etc.
> 
> All that is perfectly usable for plain Java code that before or after
> being edited inside Eclipse bears no mark of ever having been in
> contact with it.
> 
> Netbeans might be similar, I don't know.
> 
> I didn't like the Eclipse GUI interface builder.
> Maybe because it only really works well on Win32,
> maybe because I never liked any GUI interface builder.
> 
> -Kay
> 
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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