Comments on: VisualStudio vs. Eclipse vs. IDEA

By: replicahandbags

replicahandbags — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:36:58 +0000

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By: Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:07:59 +0000

I think one of the major misses with most developers (although not folks like Neal Ford) is the power of the keyboard. The reason Eclipse, VS and NetBeans always fall short for me and most other keyboard oriented coders is the lack of intelligent keyboard support. IDEA by far supports keyboard coding best. To me this says that the IDEA developers are not only coders themselves, use IDEA to code everything but also find the mouse slow like so many of us out there do.

Here a page I try to keep up to date twice a year on keyboard coding comparisons between the major Java IDEs:

http://brian.pontarelli.com/comparison-of-using-ides-without-a-mouse/

By: Jesse Kuhnert

Jesse Kuhnert — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:00:04 +0000

Yeah, what you said about IDEA. Debating the finer points of VS vs. eclipse is pretty redundant. =p

Someone has made me start using IDEA on a project lately and I’m starting to like it..The only problem is that sun has crap support for gtk so I’ll never have that snappy l&f that I can’t live without now. Death to java apps that look like java apps..

By: anjan bacchu

anjan bacchu — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:23:21 +0000

hi dion,

“Which do you think will result in a ‘better’ product?”

visual studio, for the average developer

eclipse : for the above average developer!

I have been using eclipse for 5 years now and I have been told “that eclipse is complex ” from people transitioning from editors!

BR,
~A