Eclipse is a wonderful IDE, which I was reminded of this weekend writing some fairly complex code for work. It wasn’t Java, rather Perl, which was being edited by EPIC (which at some point deserves its own rant on how awesome it is). The point being, I needed to get some code done, and picked up Eclipse and its ridiculous feature set, and got to work. I love going minimalist, but I truly think I write better code with an IDE, in less time. And Eclipse is great.
All of which makes me wonder about the piss poor Eclipse support from Oracle. I was only able to find this on the Oracle site. Now, OEP is nice and all, but there is sooo much more that could be, and should be, done with Eclipse and Oracle, especially compared to where IBM is in this same space.
