Eclipse vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

Eclipse

390 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio

805 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
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
Visual Studio	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.	$45 per month

Pricing

Eclipse

Visual Studio

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Professional: $45.00
per month
Enterprise: $250.00
per month

Pricing Offerings
Eclipse	Visual Studio
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Eclipse	Visual Studio
Considered Both Products	Open Source 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 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? 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 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? 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 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? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse used to be the defacto standard for code development. But in recent years, as it has started focusing on its other products, like Orion and Che, it's core IDE (with focus on the 'I'), has seen a slowdown in its prominence. It cannot be compared to just the massive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse The installation, adaptability, and ease of usage for Eclipse are pretty high and simple compared to some of the other products. Also, the fact that it is almost a plug and play once the connections are established and once a new user gets the hang of the system comes pretty … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse We compared Eclipse primarily with IntelliJ, and the thing we liked about Eclipse was the support for plugins which makes it really customizable. The other features that we liked were the multitasking, filtering and debugging which are very carefully designed by keeping in mind … Incentivized Helpful? David Crawford Integration Developer in Information Technology at Great Lakes Health Connect (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse The only alternative to Eclipse in the way that I require is Studio, which Eclipse blows out of the water in every respect (syntax, compiling, debugging, file management, server connections, etc). I've used many other IDEs that are much more feature-full and modern that I would … Incentivized Helpful? Parry Ghuman Software Developer in Research & Development at OATI (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse hepls to create web based applications in short amount of time which helps to reduce business cost and increase the overall team performance. Incentivized Helpful? Jose Miguel Siu Navarro Gerente de Desarrollo - Sector Publico in Information Technology at BIRD Consultores S.A. de C.V. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse The community around Eclipse keeps the product updated and (mostly) clean of errors. There is no commercial owner of Eclipse, so innovation is top priority for the project which leads to be more open, customizable and friendly to the users. IntelliJ is a good competitor, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse The IDEs I listed above are good alternatives to those who are looking for very lightweight and easy-to-use IDEs. Whether it's for first-time programmers or people looking for a really simple solution, these could work for you. Sublime Text 3 specifically for lightweight users. … Incentivized Helpful? Rhodri Ellis Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Inngot (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse provides the complexity necessary to trump Atom when working with Java, and is free when compared to WebStorm. NetBeans is a worthy competitor but it is all about preference. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Very much inferior, worse tooling, slower, harder to use, worse predictive autocomplete, worse integration with package managers Incentivized Helpful? Brendan McKenna Senior Developer in Information Technology at American Board of Internal Medicine (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse Compared to other text editors such as Emacs or Vim Eclipse wins the day. However when compared to Visual Studio I still prefer Visual Studio; perhaps because I have been using it primarily for the past 9 years. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hansen Customer Success Manager in Sales at Accela (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Eclipse The Javascript IDE space isn't great; standard integration with source control and intelligent code sensing makes Eclipse Luna a strong contender. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Visual Studio We choose Visual Studio IDE because it is easier to set up with C# and more stable. Each time we use Eclipse to make a program, we had bad behavior. Maybe that was our computer setup but we finally go with something more stable and more useful for our company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Eclipse, PyCharm, NetBeans I have used during my internship for smaller applications but to have a full end-to-end application with ease to connect to database and deployment I believe Visual Studio is way better than other available IDE in this space. Although your options get … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Compared to a lot of these options (which are free except WebStorm), Visual Studio definitely leads the pack as far as its completeness of feature set. There are deep integrations with the Microsoft ecosystem with Visual Studio that the others can't really compete with, as … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer in Research & Development at TMP Worldwide (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose Visual Studio The only other IDE I've been using in the past is Eclipse. In my opinion VS IDE is more solid software, especially after years of development; but also it's more complicated. Eclipse, as I remember, used to be easier to learn and simpler, but less powerful. In a few words: Visua… Incentivized Helpful? Siddharth Walia Test Engineer in Information Technology at NexJ Systems (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Visual Studio We are currently using Eclipse at my current workplace and I find that Visual Studio was a better choice as it could be integrated with other tools to accomplish a task and the user interface was really good. Visual Studio was somehow quick in performing different tasks like … Incentivized Helpful? Erik Ralston Chief Architect in Information Technology at LiveTiles (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio I used Eclipse and NetBeans when working as a Java developer. Both IDEs are inferior developer experiences with slower performance and downright chaotic user-interfaces. If the nature of the project would allow adoption of Visual Studio over these alternatives, I would highly … Incentivized Helpful? Gordon Lo Digital Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Dynacare (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Visual Studio I've used evaluated IBM Rational Developer for i, IBM Rational Application Developer, Android Studio, Eclipse for Java, and a few others. Visual Studio is the best. Other tools require longer setup times, don't always have all the tools integrated into the IDE or require … Incentivized Helpful? Glenn Jones Sr. Systems and Security Architect in Information Technology at Mathematica Policy Research (Research, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Visual Studio PyCharm is a one programming language tool. If you program in multiple languages Visual Studio if much better. Until a few weeks ago, if you were developing in Java, Eclipse was the IDE to use, but now that Visual Studio supports Java, I would look to see if Visual Studio might … Incentivized Helpful? lodeane kelly Software Engineer in Information Technology at Egov Jamaica Limited (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio I selected Visual Studio IDE because of its fast syntax analysis capabilities, the ease of which I can install, update and remove packages from my application. The IDE comes with an integrated SVC plugin which allows the fast synchronization of my code. NetBeans falls down in … Incentivized Helpful? Pritesh Patel Product Manager in Engineering at ProfitSword, LLC (Hospitality, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio I have used Eclipse and PyCharm for smaller projects. However, VS IDE is more for a bigger company/organization. It is an enterprise software that is perfect for a company who can pay the money to use and maintain it. Eclipse and PyCharm are more for non-business use as they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Visual Studio is better than NetBeans or Eclipse when writing software that will only run on a Windows OS. I would not recommend Visual Studio for writing software running on other OSs. Incentivized Helpful? Denny Caldwell Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Satcom Direct (Aviation & Aerospace, 201-500 employees) Chose Visual Studio I have rather limited experience with Eclipse and and VS Code. I would choose Visual Studio any day over Eclipse as Visual Studio is comparably more straight-forward and easier to use. Visual Studio is not straight-forward or easy to use by any measure, but it is easier than Ecl… Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio It's a well [maintained], mature IDE, which has the benefit of being a [software] which only the most skilled developers works on, instead of being open source. It has a lot of very useful features, which most free IDE-s don't. Also, it has many options from commercial … Incentivized Helpful? RISHAB MADAAN Web Developer at Celayix (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Visual Studio Some of the editors are suitable for a particular programming language . For example PyCharm is suited for Python . Visual Studio has support for many languages and Visual Studio is comparatively light weight from most of the IDE . The ability to get extensions and use them is … Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant in Information Technology at EMO A.Ş (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Visual Studio The main reason why we can't choose the Visual Studio IDE is that the entity framework provides excellent solutions. Besides, there is a very strong community of users. The Visual Studio IDE has a very user-friendly display. Creating functions and creating classes is much more … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Visual Studio Visual Studio was my preferred IDE before Rider became mature enough to replace it. Rider's performance, source control tools, and built-in refactoring make VS limited to specific use cases where Rider doesn't support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Visual Studio is simpler and very easy to use. It has more features integrated and also contains more platforms to develop (Android, Windows, Web, Data Science, C#, .NET, etc). It has two versions: one is the community version, that is free, and a professional version for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio It was better integrated with technologies we used, worked more reliably, had better IntelliSense. Incentivized Helpful? Nikita kumari Software Developer in Customer Service at eClerx (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Visual Studio It provides many inbuilt GUI feature that is used to create window applications easily. This tool provides more simplicity and flexibility to build applications as compared to other IDE tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio There are other free open-source project alternatives that you could use instead of Visual Studio. If you are using non-Microsoft services such as AWS, you should consider using other programming languages that don't cost as much due to licensing. Incentivized Helpful? Brett Knighton Web Developer, Xactware Solutions, Inc. in Engineering at Verisk Insurance Solutions (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Visual Studio Visual Studio is by far the most full featured IDE. I don't think it makes sense for many types of applications but for c# .net applications it is a must. For web development I would use a lightweight application such as Atom, Sublime, or Visual Studio Code. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio For .NET development in particular - Visual Studio is the premier editor. We also use it for larger projects in other technology stacks because of the discovery tooling it has built in. For small edits - or small projects, we tend to favor lighter weight tooling. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Eclipse	Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (73 ratings)	9.0 (105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (19 ratings)	8.8 (15 ratings)