Yeah I agree. Eclipse was overall a bad experience and I think most people saw it the same way so it does seem odd to reuse the brand. I mean the people involved in Eclipse obviously like Eclipse so they probably don't realise.
The thing I hated most was the workspace concept. I don't want to put all my projects in one directory or have to make a workspace just to open a project. In every other IDE you can just open a project without weird and confusing restrictions.
It also crashed quite a lot - not fully, you just get a dialog box saying there was a null pointer exception.
Also every app I've used that has been based on Eclipse has been awful. Teamcenter was probably the worst. So slow you could literally watch it drawing widgets.
The one positive I will say is that there's a state machine plugin that's really good, and it uses the Eclipse Layout Kernel which is so good at layout out diagrams that it's been ripped out of Eclipse and even converted to JavaScript.
The thing I hated most was the workspace concept. I don't want to put all my projects in one directory or have to make a workspace just to open a project. In every other IDE you can just open a project without weird and confusing restrictions.
It also crashed quite a lot - not fully, you just get a dialog box saying there was a null pointer exception.
Also every app I've used that has been based on Eclipse has been awful. Teamcenter was probably the worst. So slow you could literally watch it drawing widgets.
The one positive I will say is that there's a state machine plugin that's really good, and it uses the Eclipse Layout Kernel which is so good at layout out diagrams that it's been ripped out of Eclipse and even converted to JavaScript.