Eclipse damn SDK and all that stuff
Well. I always had an issue with eclipse plugin development. I have to confess. Once at the beginning of my career as a Java developer I had a chance to just scratch a surface of eclipse SDK and plugin development in version Eclipse 3.2 M2. I quickly switched to server side and stayed there till now. No documentation, no books in place. Constant browsing through SDK code was a nightmare. Some of my colleagues even switched to .NET due to flawless rapid GUI development experience. Colleague of mine who spent 2 weeks on a commercial project building GUI in Eclipse did most of work in few days alone by himself in .NET and convinced him to switch to that technology. Maybe you wonder why I mentioned that at all. Apparently I am sole maintainer of open source eclipse plugins and from time to time when I have some free time I spend on that project. I am big fan of VS Code and I've felt in love in that. I was shocked how fast VS Code got Java support and it works pretty well. Then I reali...