[felipemnoa]

There does seem to be a lot of hate for eclipse. The complaint I always hear is that it is a pain to use. Personally I’ve always liked it, even though I’ve used the other popular IDEs.

[pjmlp]

Same here.

You will find old rants from me complaining about workspaces metadata, but that problem has been sorted for quite sometime now.

[hugi]

Agreed. And there's simply nothing that comes close to the power of the workspace when working on multiple projects that share dependencies.

[pjmlp]

The original idea was to replicate the Smalltalk image approach, but backed by a virtual filesystem instead.

Eclipse is Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn, after all.

It was common to have plugins corrupt its metada, but somehow it finally became quite stable.