Comment by agumonkey

eclipse was a child of the java components era, even a trimmed down eclipse would still have tons of baggage

i really despised (to stay polite) everything about eclipse/java culture.. lots of generic layouts and components, nothing i cared about or bringing me dense information about code. way too much chrome and perspectives and what not. it was a cultural dead end, the people who "enjoy" working this way are on a different axis from me.. give me emacs+magit where things are right under your fingers and easy to extend.. and people using this kind of tools (i'm sure vim/neovim crowd likes that too even more) produce more tools of that kind