Originally Posted by
Simonta
My problem is that Eclipse appears, in early use, to be a steaming pile of poo compared to Visual Studio or XCode.
Don't worry, it appears like that after long-term use too

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In my experience Eclipse is generally better than vi, but while I usually avoid Microsoft software I have to admit that Visual Studio (at least the versions I've used up to 2008) is one of the best IDEs around.