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Their "meticulous design" looks like a bad copy of Visual Studio 2012. It made me LOL a bit.

disclaimer: I was responsible for the shell user interface of Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, but haven't worked for Microsoft for more than eight years or used any version of Visual Studio later than 2008. That said, I'm still rather anti-Eclipse.



I've once tried to look at the source code of Eclipse many years ago. It was by far the most over-engineered thing I've seen in my entire life.

I've since found out about Emacs and the contrast is striking; Emacs being a shining example of simplicity and extreme power while Eclipse is literally bloated boilerplate central in comparison.

This pretty much prevents me from taking anything coming out of the Eclipse Foundation seriously.


We just launched a new interface at Codeanywhere this month, would love your thoughts on it! :)




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