Eclipse and Mac OS X

POSTED BY niklas on Oct 19 under Work

Cool, seems Apple is backing Eclipse by putting it as a featured tool on their web: Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination. I used Eclipse a while ago and loved it, but on OS X it was too slow to use for anything worthwhile. I hope this has changed in the last half year, 3.1M2 is downloading right now.

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  1. Luis de la Rosa October 20, 2004 7:32 am

    I use Eclipse 3.0 on OS X 10.3.5 daily. Pretty solid and bc of OS X’s wonderful memory management, I almost never have to shut it down. It doesn’t behave well with the Dock in that it has two Dock icons open while its running, but other than that and other minor visual quibbles, it is excellent.

    I’d download and try 3.0.1 since that is 3.0 + lots of bug fixes. 3.1 M2 is in beta.

    I’m blogging about Programming Eclipse on a PowerBook on my site at http://www.luisdelarosa.com, by the way. I’m looking into the Eclipse 3.1 plans, but will be talking about other Eclipse stuff and trying to relate it back to how it works on a PowerBook.

  2. Luc July 18, 2005 5:35 am

    So what was your finding? Is it fast enough now?

  3. Nik July 18, 2005 12:03 pm

    Luc, this post is about a year old, so I’d suggest you try out newer versions than the one discussed here. :-) At the time I didn’t find it too snappy, yet better than what I’d tried before. The Eclipse team is doing a great job, so I expect all speed issues have been wiped out by now.

    Cheers

    Nik

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