Re: [eclipse-dev] [ide-dev] Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> The interesting part is that companies with thousands of developers
> that use JDT would benefit from every single minute their developers
> save with an improved Eclipse. Maybe it shouldn't be a single
> company but an interest group of 5-10 member companies? Small
> companies like ours can't sponsor but we can offer our services to
> help improving things in JDT's infrastructure as part of a long-term
> initiative.

This is a mystery to me too. If a company with 1000+ developers was considering switching from Eclipse to a commercial alternative, they could instead spend a fraction of that amount directly investing in the tools with a similar gain in productivity.

I agree with your reasoning, John.

For those that disagree or don't see this as a viable option, do we have a list of companies or committers working as consultants that will take money from people seeking to get support or enhancements made?

Andrew