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by Karellen 492 days ago
> Has its own JRE bundled, and uses that one if you don't have any JRE installed.

> Starts in 5 seconds, uses ~600MB of RAM (less than VSCode!), and works very snappy.

> The trick is, it didn't get bloated or heavier over the years, the contrary,

...and you're mentioning these features as points in Eclipse's favour ... when comparing it to vim?!?!?

I think you forgot the "/s"

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No I’m comparing it to VSCode at that instance.

I also use Vim a ton every day (both remote and local). While it’s a neat editor, it’s not an IDE.

The only place I compare it to Vim is the learning curve part, and learning curve is not related to system requirements.