Eclipse startup time (Was: questions on PhanTango 'merger' (was Merging Tangobos into Tango)

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Tue Oct 16 07:21:56 PDT 2007


Mike Parker wrote:
> 
> Wow! Startup time is an odd criterion to use to write off an editor as 
> not delivering. The features of Eclipse far outweigh the 23 seconds of 
> start up time. When I'm working with Java, Eclipse is my hero. There are 
> very few IDEs out there that deliver as much.

To each his own.  For me, responsiveness is of critical importance.  In 
my experience, all of the Java IDEs I've used just feel a tad sluggish, 
and this is enough of a reason all by itself for me to not want to use 
them.  I debug in Emacs at work rather than Sun Studio largely for this 
reason.


Sean



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