Java > Scala

[Mike Parker]

On 12/5/2011 2:51 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Somedude"<lovelydear at mailmetrash.com>  wrote in message
> news:jbeva3$2785$1 at digitalmars.com...

>> - hundreds of plugins
>
> If it needs that many plug-ins then something is very, very wrong. For
> example, maybe some of those should be built-in. And if you meant "hundreds"
> literally (but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're just
> exaggerating since it definitely sounds like an exaggeration), then..."Wow,
> that's just insane. What, does it need a separate plugin for each letter of
> the alphabet it supports?".


To be fair, you've got a lot of  what I perceive to be exaggerations in 
your arguments as well.

And to throw my 2 cents in, what you say just doesn't jive with my 
experience. Eclipse used to feel bloated and slow several years ago, but 
I've not thought that about it for a while now. I have no problem typing 
with background compilation going on, no issues with resource 
consumption, or anything else you mention except a slow start-up time. I 
use Eclipse frequently, on a 5-year old machine, for both C and Java. 
I'd use it for D, too, if the plugins were in a better state. But I've 
fallen in love with VisualD for that, so I may never go back. But when 
it comes to Java, Eclipse has me spoiled.