Comparing Visual Studio and Eclipse

An anonymous reader writes "Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Without waxing too philosophical about IDE design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and the Eclipse IDE."

Eclipse vs Visual

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, by definition, you cannot see the object if it is eclipsed. If something is visual, you can see it. Easy enough comparison.

Now, to get the folks that can add studio into the equation....

Re:Eclipse vs Visual

[ScrewMaster]

So, what you're saying is that you're better off with a partial Eclipse rather than the full download.

Re:I beleive the technical term is

[Anonymous Coward]

so you're saying Eclipse eclipses Visual Studio?

Re:Question

[LiquidCoooled]

Yes, Microsoft worked hard to implement the slowness of Eclipse within Visual Studio.
The latest 2005 editions even come with a set of custom options for configuring your resource hogging.
The flashing file save icon has been redesigned and now displays as an alpha blended bead of annoyance.

Re:That's not a comparation !!

[Jugalator]

Exactly -- I kept looking for the Visual Studio screens and side-by-side comparisons. Nothing. :-S

It's more like Introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio developers.

Re:That's not a comparation !!

[Jugalator]

LOL wait a minute, I see now that was exactly the page's title... Haha...

Well, it's only the Slashdot summary that's misleading, then.

Re:I beleive the technical term is

[Ucklak]

Last I checked, Visual Studio only runs on Windows.

Re:Eclipse isn't really an IDE anymore

[Constantine XVI]

So you mean it's turned into Emacs?

Re:Plugins make Eclipse what it is

[Just Some Guy]

I can use different Plugins to simultaneously edit projects in C++, Perl, and Fortran

Why does your boss hate you?

Re:NetBeans

[SeekerDarksteel]

I decided to try NetBeans about a year and a half back. I have a really good feeling about using it, and I'll tell you all about my experiences with it as soon as it finishes loading. XD

Re:Plugins make Eclipse what it is

[gbjbaanb]

He doesn't, the guy's a masochist who likes hurting himself, hence "The most important thing to me in moving to Eclipse was that it would fully support the Vi command set"

Re:Plugins make Eclipse what it is

[Rogerborg]

And he likes to take his punishment from a paid professional. Kinky.

Re:That's not a comparation !!

[jgrahn]

... and I've heard from many in the embedded world who state that Eclipse CDT has become the standard IDE in that arena.

I haven't used it, but it should be pointed out that Eclipse is now so big that it's also used for a lot of stupid reasons -- that it's used for $foo doesn't prove that it's a good fit for $foo, or for anything else.

I used to be in a project where we used Visual Studio 6. In reality, it sucked, so I wrote all my code in Emacs.