Well,
I have been working with Visual Studio for a some looong time now 🙂 I have touched Eclipse ONCE long time ago.
and now…things changed in my head like a couple of weeks ago when I started developing a project for Android mobile platform..tell you what…. ECLIPSE IS BETTER yes..I’ve said it.
Don’t get me wrong. I still love Visual Studio , I’ve developed many programs using it and it always will be my first love. HOWEVER…. automatic code generation in Eclipse MANY MANY GOOD HINTS it gives you while writing the code.. to place try’s, make List not generic but type defined, etc.. analysing your includes ALL THE TIME and eliminating the ones that are not needed anymore, for example I’ve defined a private FLOAT variable of a class, made a constructor and all the Setters and getters AUTOMATICALLY just by pressing an option in a menu, when I’ve executed the constructor with a number of precision too high for a float type it automatically suggested changing the private type to double and done all the changes including return types etc:)
ECLIPSE is more like a programmer’s companion than a dull REGEX based environment.