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Eclipse
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Will probably need to check this out.
This could actually be a pretty big deal
I feel like VS Code is in a very weird place right now.
To just be productive, you need a ton of plugins and often enough these don't really solve all the problems you might have. For example, there's no "java dev" package, instead you have to install a meta-package plus a bunch of other random crap, half of which don't really work out of the box. Or, if you want to use the advanced features, you have to live with weird constraints and bugs. The UI isn't really designed to incorporate more advanced plugins and the plugins themselves often don't work as expected. For example, for some reason, if you connect to a remote host, the java LSP needs the java home dir to be in the same path on both machines, which is just weird.
For a text editor it's way too bloated, but for an IDE it's way to barebones. The days of the nimble and fast advanced editor are gone,
There's a black python extension (only downloaded it following a django tutorial) and it did nothing it was supposed to. So I'm not sure what it's intentions were.
Tried the ruff extension?
Give zed.dev a try. I’ve been using it over vscode more and more. Lots faster too
Their client is only on MacOS though.
Although no official release is available yet, Linux is buildable from source…
From what I see on github, there are major issues for Linux.
I am already fighting poorly designed vendor tools, adding one more unstable software in my workflow is just more frustrations.
Why would they copy VSCode including the aspect people hate most.
Had they made it in a native gui I might actually consider it. Otherwise, why wouldn't I just choose vscode.
Ease of plugin development is a major boon
But how's the java support? If it's better than vs code then it might be worth something.
This is their "light IDE" basically, the equivalent of VS Code. Their Java IDE is the full thing, well, Eclipse. Although I personally prefer IntelliJ IDEA.
VS code is trash so not much of a challenge there
Why do you think it's trash?
"Microsoft bad"