On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:22:29 +0100 Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But Eclipse bashing by people who use say, VisualStudio, that I don't > understand. Last time I tried both toolchains, VS seemed as heavy and > "bloated" as Eclipse (CDT) was. Yet CDT seemed quite ahead in terms > of features, especially semantics-wise (open definition, code > complete, etc.). Admittedly this was 3-4 years ago, and I only toyed > lightly with C/C++ code, I didn't do any serious development. But I > doubt the situation changed such that VS got much better than CDT, if > anything, the opposite is more likely. >
Unless things have changed since I last tried, Eclipse is very Java-centric (or JVM-centric) at a fairly fundamental level. Support for other languages (from what I've tried) tends to get crammed into a Java-oriented model, which can make things confusing and leave a bad impression.
