Java > Scala

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/02/2011 10:38 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 02.12.2011, 21:50 Uhr, schrieb Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch>:
>
>> On 12/02/2011 09:44 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>
>>> Except that _Eclipse_ does not do anything to achieve this. It just
>>> invokes ant, which invokes javac, which is presumably written in C and
>>> C++.
>>
>> Seems like I was wrong about this.
>>
>>> I can do that in a console without waiting 5 minutes until the IDE
>>> has finished starting.
>>>
>>
>> But this is still true.
>
> No you are all wrong :p, it takes half a minute for Eclipse to start up.
> Yes, this is still more than a native executable would need. Still I use
> it for Java, D, JavaScript and PHP. It's awesome! I also sneak in
> Eclipse project files into github repositories to make the awesomeness
> available to others:
> https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/tree/epsilon/eclipse_projects

It feels like 5 minutes if you are accustomed to open the text editor 
and start working.

But I am sure there is something to IDE's, as many programmers seem to 
like them.