Hi all,
Like so many people, I've read
https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/january/article1.php
I'm a bit disappointed to see on an official Eclipse Foundation
media an article that put in the 1st line a sentence that seems to
assume IntelliJ is the most important IDE. I've seen some reactions
on twitter where the simple fact of presenting something as a
alternative to intellij was interpreted as an admittance of Eclipse
IDE being inferior to IntelliJ, and that is wrong. Some people even
wondered whether the Che IDE was a full replacement for the Eclipse
IDE and whether the Eclipse IDE is still maintained.
Despite being good for Che, I believe this article has a bad impact
on Eclipse IDE, whereas many of us make some efforts to improve its
image.
Most of Eclipse contributors are still working on Eclipse IDE, with
the continuous goal of satisfying Eclipse users; and Eclipse IDE is
still an alternative to IntelliJ (and if I remember correctly the
last usage statistics, it's still IJ that's an alternative to
Eclipse). I believe the message of this article totally hides and
diminish the efforts being done on Eclipse IDE, and basically sends
the wrong message to the readers.
Cheers,
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