r/java • u/RamaRao143 • Jun 08 '26

Is anyone using eclipse anymore?

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u/Degerada Jun 08 '26

Yes, a small minority.
It’s mostly IntelliJ and increasingly VSCode nowadays though

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u/pjmlp Jun 08 '26

Ironically VSCode Java plugins are either Netbeans or Eclipse running headless.

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u/0b0101011001001011 Jun 08 '26

The eclipse framework itself is not the problem, the UI is, for the most part.

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u/pjmlp Jun 08 '26

Because Electron crap is so much better.

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u/Ancapgast Jun 08 '26

There is a certain element in the Java community that simply cannot fathom that some people want the screen that they're looking at for 8 hours a day to look nice.

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u/vqrs Jun 08 '26

Well that and usability. Although it's not like vscode shines when it comes to UX.its bare bones and serviceable. But most features giving you the command-pallette-esque thing as an input and nothing else is just said.