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Yeah. I've been doing software engineering (mostly Java) for 20 years now. Eclipse stooped being relevant among professionals around 2008.

You'll still find eclipse or NetBeans users though, just like you'll find people browsing the web with Lynx : - )

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2008 was 15 years ago and many of the people I've spoken to formed their opinion of Eclipse (and IntelliJ) at that time. But what you saw back then and now isn't anywhere near being the same software.

Can you explain why Eclipse is worse than IntelliJ today?

I think I last used eclipse about 5 years ago, when I switched to VSCode. At the time, eclipse still felt like 2008 software, extremely sluggish and clunky. In particular, it really suffered taking advantage of multiple monitors.

What's changed since then? Has it gone through some kind of massive redesign?

Intellij's vim plugin is good.

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