45 engineers on Hacker News describe using Eclipse first-hand: 7 endorse it, 9 regret it, 7 are mixed.
“Multiple times per week, each time it'd take an hour to re-index.. that was a lot of time we got back again when we switched to IntelliJ”
regret · production · jakewins · 2024-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I loved eclipse for a long time. After the next upgrade on arch linux where i had to fix the setup and reinstall some plugins”
mixed · personal · Bumkatio · 2021-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love eclipse and we used eclipse for over a year until we switched to intellij.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · sigi45 · 2018-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eclipse is way more than just Java IDE. In fact, I've been using Eclipse for many years for a number of purposes, and 80% of that time - not as Java IDE.”
endorse · personal · smsm42 · 2017-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I die a little inside every time I'm forced to launch eclipse and work with The Old Stuff.”
regret · production · algesten · 2017-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In larger projects I use a CompanyLibraries project... After you do this you have complete autocompletion for every library we use.”
endorse · production · gravypod · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This NEVER happened using Eclipse.”
endorse · personal · alistproducer2 · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There's an "Auto convert to lambdas" in Eclipse that shrunk our code down nicely”
mixed · production · stickydink · 2015-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Many of the tasks which were somewhat awkward in Eclipse like managing libraries are simpler in IntelliJ/Android Studio.”
regret · production · 4 yr · wjoe · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Luna for a month, it's much faster at startup, they did a great job with Luna.”
endorse · personal · diltonm · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using development under Linux under Eclipse for a long time and found it alright, although recent moves to Mac OSX”
mixed · personal · 72deluxe · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IBM's version of Eclipse and its infinite list of bolt on and buggy tools.”
regret · production · emcrazyone · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have had people actively threatening to resign if we ever went back to Eclipse (and Java).”
regret · production · hravnx · 2014-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Two things that do not 'just work' first drove me away from Eclipse... I still use Eclipse for C and C++ development”
mixed · production · vonmoltke · 2013-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have literally no problems with Eclipse, been using it for years.”
endorse · personal · ldh · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have literally no problems with Eclipse, been using it for years.”
endorse · personal · Nickoladze · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Eclipse for a long time and I'm fine with it. It has a lot of quirks and can be difficult to learn them, but it gets the job done.”
mixed · production · kyrra · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I revisited Eclispe a couple of times, but was not overall convinced by it.”
regret · personal · JVerstry · 2013-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had good luck with both Intellij+Scala plugin and with the Eclipse plugin.”
endorse · production · brightsize · 2012-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Eclipse since at least 8 years... It just runs so much smoother”
mixed · production · 8 yr · amorphous · 2011-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I once had a job that required I use Eclipse IDE. I almost quit that job”
regret · production · michaelchisari · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Eclipse for the last three years, more heavily in the last year (Android development). I find it to be incredibly slow”
regret · personal · 3 yr · cloudwalking · 2010-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eclipse completely froze on our Windows machines a few times a day”
regret · production · wallflower · 2010-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The original one that we replaced was built on Eclipse.”
neutral · production · mtnygard · 2025-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Before that, it was intellij (and long before that, eclipse).”
neutral · personal · submain · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“including debugging in Eclipse or the browser.”
neutral · production · kigero · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Later moving to eclipse was the end of that illusion and any Smalltalk feel.”
neutral · production · throwawayForMe2 · 2021-01-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eclipse/segger/other random IDE's run perfectly on systems some of which are 22 years old now.”
neutral · production · hazeii · 2020-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Only in the second year were we moved to netbeans and eclipse.”
neutral · personal · shean_massey · 2020-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from XAMPP and Eclipse for PHP development to WSL with VSCode”
neutral · production · 0x54D5 · 2019-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our IDE changed in time from Blue River X32 v5 to internally modified Eclipse plugin.”
neutral · production · kaftoy · 2017-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Before that, I developed Android, mostly in Eclipse; so I know both worlds.”
neutral · production · manmal · 2017-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my work we use a visual programming tool (an Eclipse plugin) for mapping data elements between one format to another.”
neutral · production · kyllo · 2014-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having been using it full time at my job for the last couple of months so its workflow is quite ingrained in me.”
neutral · production · 0.2 yr · jmcdowell · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I know some people personally are more familiar with Eclipse than IntelliJ. I was one of those people.”
neutral · personal · krschultz · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even tools like Eclipse I prefer to install them separated.”
neutral · personal · rogerthis · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used editors including Eclipse, WebStorm, and Sublime Text 2”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · blakehaswell · 2013-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm a long time Eclipse user who has recently converted to IntelliJ (almost a year)”
neutral · personal · edwinnathaniel · 2013-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“except for AS3 for which I use FlashBuilder/Eclipse.”
neutral · personal · johncoltrane · 2012-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have Eclipse on more workstations than visual studio”
neutral · production · meaty · 2012-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Windows at work I use solarized light in Putty, Mintty, Eclipse, and Gvim.”
neutral · production · uggedal · 2011-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you're working heavily with Eclipse/VS, it is definitely jarring to switch back and forth”
neutral · personal · dekayed · 2011-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using IDE's (Borland, Microsoft, IntelliJ, Eclispe, Netbeans, etc)”
neutral · personal · xtracto · 2011-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my team and our partners also use eclipse so some use maven.”
neutral · production · maayank · 2011-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the graphic designer on our team was able to use an eclipse plugin to update/commit.”
neutral · production · diN0bot · 2010-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?