TechEcho

<p><pre><code> All that said, Eclipse JDT remained a solid IDE for pure Java development and the go-to choice for students and open source projects looking for a free IDE. This was killed by the launch of Intellij Community Edition. </code></pre> Not in my experience. The majority of students at my university still seems to be using Eclipse.

I'd guess that Google switching the Android IDE from Eclipse to IntelliJ had a pretty big effect on usage numbers.

Given how much the author talks about eclipse getting ugly from 3.x to 4.x it would have been nice with before and after screenshots in the article.

Use of eclipse is highly correlated with people that use editors as if they are notepad.

I tried IntelliJ and came back to elegance of Eclipse. Nothing beats Eclipse.

I liked JBuilder back in the day and today I use STS (based on Eclipse) because as much as I tried to like IntelliJ, I really don't understand what's going on.

Even long time ago I felt like the author. Eclipse was somehow never 'round'.

I wonder what percentage of pure Java programmers code in vim with a java-autocomplete plugin.