Eclipse

Eclipse

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Eclipse	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Open Source José Antonio Jaramillo Vela Software Engineer in Engineering at knowmad mood (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Eclipse I choose Eclipse above other similar integrated development environments because Eclipse, apart from being free, has a wide community behind it that constantly adds and upgrades plugins and extensions that allow you to do and build basically anything using Eclipse. It also has … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Puniyani Senior Software Engineer In Test in Information Technology at EPAM Systems (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Eclipse 1. Eclipse is easy to use. 2. when you are new to building something you can go for Eclipse as it provides a clean UI. 3. Provide support to connect with other tools and technology. Incentivized Helpful? Eddie Galvez Chief Architect in Engineering at Tibco (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Eclipse IntelliJ is a good IDE as well. Any motivated user can't go wrong focusing on one and then deeply learning it, and it will pay off in productivity. Note of course that one is free the other is not! I find Eclipse is stronger at managing very large projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Compared to IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse is free of charge and that is the main advantage for me. Over the time I got used to Eclipse, I didn't want to switch even though I could, because all I need is there and it works like a charm. Compared to NetBeans, I found the community of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Visual Studio is a better solution for larger applications and organizations. Eclipse is free and good for small companies/applications. VS also integrated well with the Microsoft environment. However, Eclipse is not tied to any environment and can be used with multiple OS … Incentivized Helpful? Giovanni Paredes Analyst programmer at Banco General (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Eclipse Above all, the great variety of plugins that eclipse offers you for your developments, allowing you to consume personalized libraries that can help you in your development. Also its implementation is simpler and faster allowing you to establish a development environment even … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse stands out with its feature set, reliability, and being completely free of charge. I have previously used NetBeans but had reliability issues with it, at least on Windows version. IDEA has modern UI and is significantly more user friendly than Eclipse; however, the free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse [In my opinion,] Eclipse is the worst IDE for java right now. Incentivized Helpful? Xialin Zhu Engineering Manager in Engineering at LinkedIn (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Eclipse They are both great IDEs and we use both. IntelliJ may have a larger community so there are more plugins available, which means it could be a better choice for some specific types of projects. Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is far better than NetBeans. But when compared to IntellijIdea Eclipse is a good choice when it comes to handling large projects and costs. Eclipse has room to improve on its UI and IntelliSense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse As previously said, Eclipse is one of the most complete and useful tools for Java development. And as a plus, it's open-source and free, so you won't beat that price-quality relation. When starting with Java projects, you won't fail with Eclipse. But, if you are getting into … Incentivized Helpful? Rajshekhar Sahu Student in Information Technology at Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Bhoapl India (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Eclipse As compared to NetBeans, Eclipse is much faster. NetBeans needs to have JDK 1.8 which sometimes creates problems if your system already has a higher version installed, besides it has a glassfish server which is hard to configure. Integration of MySQL or other database is … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Co-Founder, President, CTO in Corporate at Infofree Sales Leads \| Business Lists \| Person Search & CRM101 (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse beats all other Java IDEs in my honest opinion. I've tried NetBeans (among others) in the past for Java projects, but didn't see the same value which Eclipse provides. I have moved over to Visual Studio Code for Node.js, React Native and other JavaScript specific … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse First thing, Eclipse is free. So zero cost as compared to other alternatives. Eclipse has tons of tools/plugins for better development/testing, helping devs, making their lives easier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse I think Eclipse is best for Java while the other products, for example, NetBeans, is good for PHP. Visual Studio is really good for C#. I would still say Eclipse is really good overall, but awesome for Java developers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse could be replaced by NetBeans or WebStorm, but these last two don't have an ABAP development tools plugin (not that I know of at least). Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse offers all the features in the other IDEs but without any cost. It also is memory efficient as compared to other IDEs. Various themes are available in eclipse and we can customize it according to our needs very easily. The Windows Toolkit allows us to build desktop … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer in Information Technology at IdeaQuest (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse As I already said, Eclipse might not have all the features supported by IntelliJ. However, the variety of plugins available in Eclipse make it much flexible to work with. Another main reason to go for this product was because of price (free). Since I worked for a startup, the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse was used for 3-5 years until IntelliJ became the more preferred IDE because IntelliJ has better code formatting, presentation, and navigation between different types of files. IntelliJ has a shorter learning curve and setup is easier especially for less experienced … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse and NetBeans are open-sourced and does not require a license to use the software. However, Eclipse has a wide selection of plugins to choose from to integrate any tools within the workspace, making development more accessible, and reducing the developer effort. Incentivized Helpful? Larry Reed Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Survey Monkey (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose Eclipse I've used Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, and VSCode. Visual Studio was very good but highly oriented towards a rather limited set of uses. I chose to use Eclipse for two primary reasons: First, it was more flexible, Open Source, and supported a much wider variety of languages … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Visual Studio Code can also be used for CDS development. It is quite lightweight and useful when developing for web environments. Eclipse however, has an ABAP environment as well as the HANA tools. This makes Eclipse (in my opinion) a better solution for a more well-rounded … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Hightower IT Admin in Information Technology at Gateway Preparatory Academy (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse These are all very similar in what they can do, and so they all stack up very similarly. I personally have found that Eclipse did a little bit better when it came to programming with java and so that is why we went with it for the classes coding in Java. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Eclipse
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (73 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (19 ratings)