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by dkersten 5971 days ago
I regularly use Eclipse for work and I find it to be horribly lacking. For one, I wouldn't even dream of running it on my eee pc (actually, I tried and it was so sloooow I quickly uninstalled it again - and yes, I do use my eee pc for development a lot, especially when I'm not at home). Secondly, I often write code over a remote connection. I can use my IDE of choice over SSH without loss of features - can you do this with Eclipse?

I use vim, which when coupled with the right configuration and plugins can do most things your fancy IDE's can do, plus run in a temrinal over ssh.

For the record, in work I program a lot of Java and some C++, outside this, I work a lot in Clojure and Python, amongst other things (assembly, Boo, Yeti and recently F#).