Comment by bayindirh
2 years ago
For me, perspectives are perfect, because it provides me a perfect set of tools for everything I do at that moment. It's probably a personal choice, so I agree and respect your PoV.
The plugin conflicts were way more common in the olden days, that's true, however, I used subclipse during my Master's and it was not incomplete as my memory serves. It allowed me to do the all wizardry Subversion and a managed Redmine installation Assembla had to offer back in the day.
It's much better today, and you can work without changing perspectives if you prefer, so you might give it another shot. No pressure though. :)
Trivia: VSCode Java LSP is an headless Eclipse instance.
At a minimum, perspectives play very nicely with the plugins system.
Eclipse was created over that extremely interesting idea that you can write a plugin to do some completely random task, and have all of it reconfigured on the perfect way for that task.
But you can't have a rich ecosystem of plugins without organizing them in some way, and nobody ever created a Debian-like system for them as it's a lot of thankless hard work.