Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Bye-bye, Borland - you've been Eclipsed for half a decade
This week I threw out my latest version of Borland JBuilder.
Back in mid-2003, I switched to Eclipse. It really solved the problems I has having with JBuilder freezing up for a while from time to time.
It has been 5 years since the last time I used it. For me, the open source Eclipse IDE has totally replaced JBuilder.
JBuilder was fine on smaller and medium-sized projects. However, on the big commercial IT applications I usually find myself working on - JBuilder was overwhelmed. It would pause for long periods of time.
Once I switched from JBuilder to Eclipse, I never went back. Eclipse just kept getting better. Its refactoring capabilities kept improving with each new version.
Moreover, Eclipse was free. JBuilder kept getting more expensive with each new version. Even the discounted upgrade price was high.
I might have continued to use JBuilder at home if Borland had continued to support Mac OS X. However, that support was only provided briefly. By contrast, Eclipse had unwavering support for the Macintosh.
JBuilder was the first Java IDE I truly loved. I started using it as soon as JBuilder 1 was released back in 1997. I kept using it on each project I did from 1997-2003.
I bought a lot of software from Borland from the 1980s to early 2000s. To me, getting rid of the last of my Borland software is kind of like the end of a long, long era.
Back in mid-2003, I switched to Eclipse. It really solved the problems I has having with JBuilder freezing up for a while from time to time.
It has been 5 years since the last time I used it. For me, the open source Eclipse IDE has totally replaced JBuilder.
JBuilder was fine on smaller and medium-sized projects. However, on the big commercial IT applications I usually find myself working on - JBuilder was overwhelmed. It would pause for long periods of time.
Once I switched from JBuilder to Eclipse, I never went back. Eclipse just kept getting better. Its refactoring capabilities kept improving with each new version.
Moreover, Eclipse was free. JBuilder kept getting more expensive with each new version. Even the discounted upgrade price was high.
I might have continued to use JBuilder at home if Borland had continued to support Mac OS X. However, that support was only provided briefly. By contrast, Eclipse had unwavering support for the Macintosh.
JBuilder was the first Java IDE I truly loved. I started using it as soon as JBuilder 1 was released back in 1997. I kept using it on each project I did from 1997-2003.
I bought a lot of software from Borland from the 1980s to early 2000s. To me, getting rid of the last of my Borland software is kind of like the end of a long, long era.
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