Comment by fredgrott
2 years ago
I think you are mistaken, Eclipse takes up 3 times the ram VSCode does...I can use VSCode using only 6gig ram even with big projects with native code such as kotlin, java, c, swift, etc..Eclipse will not run on 6 gig ram neither will jetbrains or android studio.
My system monitor says it's using 1.3GBs after warming up, and even forcefully reindexing a big C++ project.
I don't think VSCode will use 400MBs with that amount of code, plus electron, plus all the LSP stuff you run beneath it.
In that state Eclipse will fit into a 6GB system just fine. I'd love to try that at a VM right now, but I don't have the time, unfortunately :)
If memory serves, fully loaded Eclipse would take about 20-25% more memory than IntelliJ, which was itself rightfully called greedy.
At the time most of us felt it was worth the cost of entry for all of the tools you got, which eclipse had a subset of.