> Eclipse gets a lot of automatic hate - I believe mostly since a lot of people first use it in university and struggled with their first real IDE.

More like Eclipse struggled on the kind of hardware that people could afford as a student.

My main memories of Eclipse (15 years ago at this point) are waiting forever for it to start up, though it was pretty adequate after that.

Right, but it’s essentially a fancy text editing environment. It should never have needed anything but barebones hardware.

	▲	rovr138 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> essentially a fancy text editing environment No, it’s an IDE first. Not a text editor that’s extensible. It has a lot of features built-in, pre-enabled, and configured out of the box. Yes, it can edit text. But it can do a lot more.