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Walden H. Leverich wrote:
I sincerely hope that is true, for two reasons. First, I still code on
the System i at times, and when I move from VS.Net to Rational I'd like
to not feel like I just got out of a Ferrari and into an Amish Buggy.
And second, I like competition. Two strong IDEs can only make both
better.
Um... I think you misunderstand me. I already think that the Eclipse tooling is on a par with VS from a purely mechanical aspect. Eclipse's UI, especially the workbench/view/perspective paradigm, is in my mind superior to VS, but that's purely a subjective view.

No, the only place where VS wins is its integration to .Net (duh). Because it only has to support a small segment of the programming world, VS has an advantage. Eclipse, since it's built to support everything, by its nature takes a little longer to ramp up. But as an example, the Eclipse Java editor is the equal of any other editor out there. On the other hand, the WYSIWYG editors aren't yet the equal of VS, although the Matisse folks think differently, and the JSF editor in Rational is getting darned close.

In fact, when we're talking apples to apples (or as close as we can get with the two, which would be J2EE to .Net) I see no place where VS is "Ferrari/buggy" better than Eclipse/Rational. Where do you find the difference?

Joe

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