“Eclipse is quickly becoming the de facto environment for developers and its popularity is increasing rapidly. Here are three excellent tutorials to expand your Eclipse skills: Help your customers use your Eclipse-based product or plug-in, by developing interactive cheat sheets. Learn the ins and outs of BIRT, a plug-in suite that allows you to extract information, analyze it, then generate report summaries and charts. Make your Perl application development run smoothly with the Eclipse EPIC plug-in, which teaches you how to develop Perl applications quickly, create a perldoc, and more.”
Pearl Applications?
Good job.
Concur
Really? I wouldn’t be surprised if more people used emacs than Eclipse. It’s a nice IDE and all, but not *that* great …
Neither is emacs, wouldn’t surprise me if more people used vi.
For professional programmers, an IDE is usually the tool of choice, whether it’s Visual Studio or Eclipse or something else.
For people using Java out in the business world, which is quite a large number these days, Eclipse is by far the market leading IDE.
“A poll of US and European companies by analyst house Forrester Research found that more than 44% were using Eclipse in some capacity, with that figure rising to as much as 75% among those using the Java programming language.”
http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/information-age/group111967.adp
Though I personally like using VIM for much of my own development, I do find Eclipse is one of the best ways to go if you’re writing something in Java. Its support for other languages via plugins such as the CDT for C/C++ is pretty good as well, but not quite where I’d switch to it for those yet. Its open and plugin-based architecture is definitely a big reason for its popularity.
Eclipse and EPIC sure put the fun back into PERL under windows. IBM’s generate your interface class from XML seemed rather hokey and there was no equivalent to Jbuilders GUI editor but once used to doing swing blindfolded it really rocked for Java programming, maybe even more productive having to design the interface on purpose rather than screwing around clicking and dragging. Oddly enough I have not tried it for C.
About the only thing I wish eclipse had is vi emulation.