[Icathian]

Genuinely curious here, how can an IDE be toxic? I haven't heard any such thing before.

[jtdev]

If the IDE broadly reduces the efficiency of developers, and causes developers to waste time contorting their workflow to the IDEs poorly conceived approach to doing things - especially in relation to other IDEs... I'd say that's toxic for the Eclipse brand.

[lovemenot]

Any brand is toxic when the market deems your product overwhelmingly in a negative light.

Not saying that is or isn't the case wrt Eclipse.

[Kihashi]

> how can an IDE be toxic

If people associate the IDE with negative emotions, which a lot of people have for eclipse, I'd say it's fair to call it toxic.

[timw4mail]

Slow, memory hogging, and not that useful.

[sigzero]

I don't find the latest Intellij any faster. I currently have the latest of both installed.

[tempodox]

No soap, both are built in Java.