Five things I hate about Eclipse
Without further ado, here they are:
1. The acronyms.
There's PDE, SDK, WST, RCP, DTP, BIRT, EMF, MDT, GMT, M2M, M2T, MDT, PTP. And the list goes on and on and on. Are these people nuts?
2. The missing plugin repository.
There is no single location where it all comes together. I'm not even asking for a central download server, even if IBM could afford that. All I want is a single instance that knows about all registered plugins. So that I could install a new plugin and if that plugin had any requirements that aren't already installed, the plugin manager could point me to the correct location.
3. The business language.
Yes, I know, Eclipse wants to be big in the corporate world. But does that mean that project and plugin descriptions have to be written in managerese? "Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.
" Worse things can be found on various eclipse web pages, but the buzzword bingo starts right there on the front page.
4. The bug tracker.
It's awfully slow, it's awfully hard to use, and "Zarro Boogs found.
" is not at all funny.
5. The menues.
No, I don't expect to find the "Software Updates" feature in the Help menu. No, I don't expect to find the application preferences in the Window menu.