Vote if you want an Eclipse alternative for java made by Google

7 pointslawlit2 comments

With a super intelligent editor, simple plugins system and maybe something with the UI of Chrome developer tools would be nice...Because face it, Eclipse really sucks. You might like it but still, it sucks.

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Google supports Eclipse and have built several tools to enhance it (Source Android). Why would they undo all of it. There are more interesting stuff to do even for a big company like google.

My only problem with eclipse is that it's a bit slow, but I can always buy a powerful machine and nullify that.

Perhaps you need to explore eclipse more. There are several editor options, I use emacs and long time back I built a shared LAN editor plugin. I also customize the shortcuts/workspace a lot.

http://www.jetbrains.org/

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