My Eclipse experience with Java 8 was so bad, I switched to NetBeans

Is it just me who likes Eclipse? I originally used Netbeans, then swapped to Visual Studio for awhile while doing Windows dev, then moved to Eclipse. I tried using IntelliJ for awhile as well, but the javadoc popups are pretty awful and it&#x27;s missing some of the nice plugins you can get for Eclipse.<p>Eclipse has just always worked really well for me and I like it the most. Plus I really don&#x27;t like the &#x27;open core&#x27; method and Eclipse is just plain free software.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m running Java8 on my Eclipse right now including maven builds etc, and everything is working really well.

I was a little curious how this could be, so I checked around and came across this:<p>&quot;We can&#x27;t legally include Java 8 tools in an Eclipse release before Java 8 itself is released. Based on the current java 8 release date estimate, we would be able to include support in the Luna (4.4.0) release.&quot;[0]<p>And since the release date was 2014&#x2F;3&#x2F;18 [1] I really can&#x27;t see why there would be much complaining, if any.<p>[0] <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380190#c8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.eclipse.org&#x2F;bugs&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=380190#c8</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=java+8+release+date" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=java+8+release+date</a>

Same experience here. Couldn&#x27;t get it working properly and ended up with netbeans after about an hour.<p>Edit: for ref netbeans is pretty good. I hated it about 3-4 years ago and moved to eclipse but it&#x27;s pretty amazing now.

Why not just use IntelliJ?

The difference between Eclipse and Netbeans&#x2F;IntelliJ is, that Eclipse is implementing its own Compiler while the other two are using Oracle&#x27;s javac. That&#x27;s why Eclipse didn&#x27;t have Java8 support out of the box.

I dropped Eclipse a long time ago in favor of other IDEs. I like Eclipse a lot, it was my IDE of choice. I just got tired of all the plugins, the general sluggishness I felt using it, the oddities with it when it came to Maven support (sometimes having to completely close Eclipse &#x2F; Relaunch for a maven build to work right).<p>I had other oddities as well, such as totally biffing my SVN solution a time or two because of files getting locked that shouldn&#x27;t have been locked.<p>In the end I moved to IntelliJ and it&#x27;s been wonderful. Been a bit different getting used to the keymapping, but overall it&#x27;s been a good experience I have not looked back.

Java 8 works fine for me in Eclipse? Took about 5 minutes to set up by following the instructions found on eclipse.org.

skip netbeans and move right on to intellij!

It&#x27;s just an IDE. Get over it.

intellij is good all in all, but then if you want to edit php, you have to use its sibling product; phpstorm<p>furthermore, netbeans can recognize various amount of extension and can even format your codes nicely with alt + shift + f<p>and i only use intellij when i want to deploy mobile application onto android...eclipse really dam buggy with the deployment

How about just switching to the best Java IDE on the market: IntelliJ IDEA? Sure, you&#x27;ll have to pay for it, but you get what you pay for - both ways.

This just in: Eclipse is bad.<p>This is shameless clickbait.