Having an Eclipse release sit on HN for 3 hours with zero comments seems like the most accurate depiction of the market's current feelings towards Eclipse...
Eclipse itself has certainly improved dramatically in the last couple years. Speed, UI, Installation, etc. Lots of polish going into it...
This is a really strange observation.
Do a search here on HN for the Visual Studio Code editor and you'll find a number of posts with 0 comments. I use that editor as an example as it seems to be among what's popular at the moment.
I don't think you can derive much from the number of comments a post has after 3 hours. Some of the more popular posts on HN exist after the link had been submitted a number of times prior.
I'm not the youngest developer, and I like to see content on my steady bread-winner so I upvote it. Java is in a mature phase, so there are not a lot of surprises, and things to discuss. Even the shiny new things that make the platform unique like Loom have been years in the making.
Just Java being Java, where 'boring' is what you actually want from it.
I rather suck it up and use Electron for Java development (VSCode + Microsoft/Red-Hat plugins) than having to deal with InteliJ.
I'd rather say that old paths keep getting rediscovered. Such is the cyclic way of tech. There are always new "hipsters" that are freshly paving old paths, putting their unique spin on it.
In the world of VSC, this stuff requires figuring out which tool the community recommends, configuring it, and making sure that all the things you chose actually work together.
there is platformio for vscode in same vane but kind of a hodgepodge dog
On a whim, I decided to give VsCode a spin, since I don't code java for fun there was no IDE for it on my personal machine.
I spent the night pesting at VsCode. Many very basic things require a plugin, and some are not present.
Will not use again to do Java. I like it for python.
Speeding up Maven compiles?
It’s usable for Java/scala development, but lacks features. Feature comparison at https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_....
And “whatever it is” is $499 for the first, $399 for the second, and $299 for later years (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#commercial?billing=yearl...)
The individual price for Ultimate Edition is $149 the first year, $119 the second consecutive year, and $89 a year from then on.