Eclipse
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
3warn against
Nov 27, 2025first mention
Aug 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I remember when I moved from netbeans to eclipse and the speed of compilation was amazing.”
switched from NetBeanson “A curmudgeon tries a language server”
“i made this[0] in a few hours using Java, LWJGL and Eclipse”
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“Eclipse with the Github Copilot plugin. Nice and simple, but it works.”
Caveats and dissent
“The days of using Eclipse were particularly bleak.”
former Google engineeron “A History of IDEs at Google”
“Now Eclipse was a real problem at Google because of the source control system.”
Xoogler (2010-2017)on “A History of IDEs at Google”
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“how bloated and memory hungry Eclipse was. It was almost unusable.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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Data: eclipse.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I remember when I moved from netbeans to eclipse and the speed of compilation was amazing.”
“i made this[0] in a few hours using Java, LWJGL and Eclipse”
“we used the Eclipse, then we started switching the IntelliJ.”
“The days of using Eclipse were particularly bleak.”
“Now Eclipse was a real problem at Google because of the source control system.”
“I went through some IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans) because Java would have been nearly impossible otherwise”
“how bloated and memory hungry Eclipse was. It was almost unusable.”
“Eclipse with the Github Copilot plugin. Nice and simple, but it works.”