Comments on: Jon Skeet’s Coding Blog : Visual Studio vs Eclipse http://www.obfuscated.org/2005/12/jon-skeets-coding-blog-visual-studio-vs-eclipse/ I will not explain what this weblog is all about in a few words. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cp http://www.obfuscated.org/2005/12/jon-skeets-coding-blog-visual-studio-vs-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-224 cp Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:05:04 +0000 #comment-224 <p>You know, I'm the same way. I get so much more done with Emacs and a shell or three than I do with Eclipse. That said, Eclipse (I have to imagine that this is also true for most of the other IDE's, but I haven't used them so I don't know) makes some things <em>much</em> easier than they would be with just a text editor. Refactoring and abstract class code generation, for example, are a <em>breeze</em> with Eclipse.</p> <p>I think the most wonderful feature of a lot of modern Java development environments is that they all use Ant for their build systems and don't maintain any weird sort of data external to the Ant configuration and the source, so you can do the IDE magic using the IDE when you <em>need</em> to and then just slip back in to whatever text editor you find most comfortable. That's my strategy these days, at any rate.</p> You know, I’m the same way. I get so much more done with Emacs and a shell or three than I do with Eclipse. That said, Eclipse (I have to imagine that this is also true for most of the other IDE’s, but I haven’t used them so I don’t know) makes some things much easier than they would be with just a text editor. Refactoring and abstract class code generation, for example, are a breeze with Eclipse.

I think the most wonderful feature of a lot of modern Java development environments is that they all use Ant for their build systems and don’t maintain any weird sort of data external to the Ant configuration and the source, so you can do the IDE magic using the IDE when you need to and then just slip back in to whatever text editor you find most comfortable. That’s my strategy these days, at any rate.

]]> By: Collin Beck http://www.obfuscated.org/2005/12/jon-skeets-coding-blog-visual-studio-vs-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Collin Beck Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:41:12 +0000 #comment-223 <p>Why do I always find it easier to code in a simple editor than these large visual studio and eclipse applicatiosn?</p> Why do I always find it easier to code in a simple editor than these large visual studio and eclipse applicatiosn?

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