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Re: [eclipse-dev] [ide-dev] Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ | Java Code Geeks
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I don't see any mystery there. Not many companies have expertise in
Eclipse Platform and building such expertise won't contribute to their
core business. And without such expertise they can't estimate cost of
implementing features and fixing bugs that make their developers
less productive. I won't reroof my house myself for the same reason. I
have no idea how long it will take me to do the job, there is no
certainty the result will be any good, and this experience won't be of
any use during my next job interview (unless I decide to start roofing
business, of course).
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Regards,
Igor
On 2013-09-20 10:42 AM, John Arthorne wrote:
> From: Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The interesting part is that companies with thousands of developers
> that use JDT would benefit from every single minute their developers
> save with an improved Eclipse. Maybe it shouldn't be a single
> company but an interest group of 5-10 member companies? Small
> companies like ours can't sponsor but we can offer our services to
> help improving things in JDT's infrastructure as part of a long-term
> initiative.
This is a mystery to me too. If a company with 1000+ developers was
considering switching from Eclipse to a commercial alternative, they
could instead spend a fraction of that amount directly investing in the
tools with a similar gain in productivity. As you say if 5-10 companies
do this, the effect multiplies greatly. Not only that, it would give the
company the expertise and influence to fix the problems or add the
features that are most important to their own developers. There are a
few enlightened big companies like Ericsson, Red Hat, and Pivotal that
have been contributing to Platform and JDT recently and I hope others
catch on. I would claim it doesn't even take a big investment. Some part
time contributors in SWT, Platform UI, and JDT are having a noticeable
impact already.
John
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