Comments on: Eclipse Europa… Too Many Choices…

By: teddi

teddi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:09:41 +0000

Funny how I landed here when searched for “eclipse too many versions” – LOL!

But sadly, yes I’m on a Europa 3.3.2 and thought I should upgrade to get more performance, etc. I check out the same downloads pages and it’s just nonsense. If I install the wrong version will it still honor all my old projects. Unfortunately I think they don’t want to upset all the contributors and just let them keep adding more tentacles. It may be time to search for another IDE if at this point they still can’t get it under control. They need to just wrap it all into one. Add-ons are never ending, why keep creating a new version everytime someone farts a new over-cooked idea. They keep creating all these “tools” and still people write buggy un-manageable code, makes no difference.

Bring back KAWA!!!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:22:35 +0000

Line1:
All Road Lead to here! I Like C# but then when I put my finger on Netbean, I discovered Eclipse……Horribly Confusing download page then when googling “eclipse classic vs eclipse ide”. then Jump to Line1.
I’m still googling

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:48:19 +0000

I agree — I think the eclipse downloads page is confusing, and I found this blog when googling “eclipse classic vs eclipse ide”.

By: Patrick Mahoney

Patrick Mahoney — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:08:06 +0000

Dujen I’m doing the same thing as you, hopefully it works fine. I just kind of assumed after reading the posts that I would be fine with either, so I chose the Java Dev edition as well.

By: Dujen Wook

Dujen Wook — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:09:25 +0000

I too found this page after wondering what the differences were. I went to eclipse for Android dev, and was rather put-off but the numerous choices but it seems I’d have been ok regardless. I’m going with the Java Dev edition and crossing my fingers.

Cheers!

By: Sebastijan Pistotnik

Sebastijan Pistotnik — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:02:58 +0000

Hahahaha…Eric, this is probably the most famous eclipse page…all roads lead to your page…Who ever put those two versions on net, should be locked hahhahaha unbelievable

By: Cos

Cos — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:31:58 +0000

@ADEIZA: So you gave up on the whole thing because you couldn’t figure out the download? Wow…

By: Adeiza

Adeiza — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:26:39 +0000

I had to give up on eclipse because of the numerous download options and settle for my Netbeans IDE where i can get all in one. bye eclipse

By: Ric

Ric — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:15:32 +0000

YES! I hate eclipse and the website. So confusing that’s why I got to this blog.

Wish IntelliJ was free!!!!

By: crantok

crantok — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:19:39 +0000

Ha! Two and a half years after you post this and I stumble across it because I’m similarly confused. (I’ve never programmed in Java but want to give Groovy a go and it’s not supported by my favourite editor, Geany.)

I blame the Eclipse website. It’s so visually busy that I didn’t even try to figure anything out there. I googled
difference “eclipse classic” “eclipse ide for java developers”
and this page is the second link. The first link is the page that confused me.