[dupe123]

Yeah, if your talking about eclipse, I'm a bit surprised myself also. The only big thing I can think of that it is lacking is type searching. Maybe quick hints too but thats not that big of a deal. Other than that it gives autocompletion, import management, inlining/extracting functions, etc. Is there something I'm missing?

[jcrites]

What do you mean by type searching? Ctrl-shift-G finds all references to the currently selected symbol. Ctrl-shift-T gives you a quick find/open on the symbol name you type.

Eclipse is really fantastic. For an excellent demo of how to use it effectively, see Notch's (from Mojang/Minecraft) participation in Ludum Dare this year.

[ramchip]

I think he may mean searching by type, not searching for the type of something. Hoogle does this for Haskell and it's a fantastic tool. Let's say I want to find if an element is in a list but I don't know the name of the function to do that. It should have a signature like [a]->a->Bool (take a list of a's and one a, and return true or false). Well, here it is:

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%5Ba%5D+-%3E+a+-%3E+Bo...

[eropple]

Eclipse is pretty nice, but none of that is particularly unique to it anymore (and it often does feel just a little clunky - I've started moving to IntelliJ mostly for that reason).

It does get a bad rap that's not really well-deserved, though.