Interesting. I hate Eclipse with a passion, I find the ergonomics so horrendous, and back in the days it was a hog. Maybe on today's hardware it's leaner than webkit based vscode. But the last time I tried to use git with it .. it made things 10x harder than the CLI. It was so bad that I developped RSI in 24h (and I'm a daily emacs user)
It’s possible that Eclipse has had a “Firefox moment” where someone carved it down to a lighter core, but I’ve no reason to check.
Seconded on the ergonomics. They were a joke. Longest inputs of any IDE I’ve ever used. If your sequences are longer than vim you need to get your head examined.
eclipse was a child of the java components era, even a trimmed down eclipse would still have tons of baggage
i really despised (to stay polite) everything about eclipse/java culture.. lots of generic layouts and components, nothing i cared about or bringing me dense information about code. way too much chrome and perspectives and what not. it was a cultural dead end, the people who "enjoy" working this way are on a different axis from me.. give me emacs+magit where things are right under your fingers and easy to extend.. and people using this kind of tools (i'm sure vim/neovim crowd likes that too even more) produce more tools of that kind
