Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Eclipse 3.4 kicks ass

Today is a big day for (Java) developers. Long story short. Eclipse 3.4 is out and it's great. Lots of new features, fixes and speed improvements.

Here are some interesting new features

New update UI. I don't care about the GUI change but hear this. You are no more required to search for required plug-ins before new plug-in installation. Don't believe me? Read this:

Unlike previous versions, you no longer have to find and select all prerequisites of the software you are trying to install.
Working with 64-bit Windows. Well... I don't care, but some sure do.

Close tabs with middle click. This is just nice. It seems like they care about us.

Java Editor Breadcrumb. I imagine this will be usable when you have lots of opened files with same names in different directories.

Rearrange content of files per drag and drop. Cool, but not worth it :)

Enhanced debug hover. We all know that Eclipse debugging sucks. Everybody, who have worked with Visual Studio know how superior VS debugging workspace is. Not anymore... almost...

And lots and lots and lots more...

Features I hoped for this release, but still missing.

Debuging still sucks. Though it sucks less it still sucks :(

My congratulations to Eclipse team on new release. Everybody can download it here.

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