Comment by bilekas
6 hours ago
This is so insane to me. Eclipse is... Fine for Java in the sense Visual Studio is for dotnet. But man can they both be slow.
Use case depending sometimes you just need a quick editor, thats why sublime had and probably still has a huge userbase, its fast startup and flexibility. Vim, emacs and derivatives of it are the same story.
I can't imagine ever opening up eclipse to edit a zig/go/js file or project. It's too bloated.
The answer is neovim anyway. That's all anyone needs. /s
Emacs is a full IDE, not just a quick one-off editor. Its power comes from having everything scriptable from the ground up. Contrast this with the modern Extension concept, where there is a hard line between the editor's code and any changes you might want to make to its behavior.
I think vim is probably similar, but I've not gotten into it that much.
Exactly, and infact vim is very simular, neovim in my case extensible through lua scripts as an example. It's as light or feature packed as I like.
Contrast that to Eclipse and Visual Studio (not vsCode) and it's clear why the larger IDE's are falling out of favour.