John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:44:33 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 27 September 2013 21:35, Bruno Medeiros 
> <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "Hardware does get faster more rapidly than software gets 
>> slower -- I'm
>> finding Eclipse perfectly usable on modern hardware."
>>
>> https://twitter.com/ID_AA_**Carmack/status/**383334141078429697<https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/383334141078429697>
>>
>> I would have liked some more details on what he is using 
>> Eclipse for
>> though. Is it Android development? And even so, is it just 
>> Java or C/C++
>> too? Especially significant given Manu's recent comments that:
>> "I've never met a C++ developer that likes Eclipse ;)"
>> :p
>
>
> Carmack is perhaps the games industry's most renowned anti-C++ 
> user. He
> rejected C++ for decades, I'm not sure what his current stance 
> is ;)
> And I haven't met John Carmack...

He switched to C++ for id Tech 4 (Doom 3).  They started work on 
Doom 3 in 2000 from what I can gather so he's been on the C++ 
trolley for 13 years.

Here's some comments of his about the C++ use in id Tech 4: 
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3NDQ