Jeff Dillon

I had to Dump Eclipse
I have used Eclipse for almost three years for my Java development. I also got my previous company to adopt it as the standard Java IDE since I really liked it. However, I recently had to dump it. It simply has become too bloated and is unable to handle projects with a very large number of files. The project I am working on at Sun simply has many more files than previous projects and Eclipse continued to crash and hang. (I was using the latest Eclipse 2 and Eclipse 3.0 is not any better.) As a software developer, I have absolutely no patience to wait for simple tasks like opening files and restarting from hangs and crashes.

I have been using IntelliJ for about two weeks now. The first test that it sucessfully passed was being able to handle the massive number of files in my project very easily. IntelliJ also has a few features that were not in Eclipse until very recently (3.0). I am also going to try out NetBeans since it has been about a year since I looked at it.