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I've once tried to look at the source code of Eclipse many years ago. It was by far the most over-engineered thing I've seen in my entire life.

I've since found out about Emacs and the contrast is striking; Emacs being a shining example of simplicity and extreme power while Eclipse is literally bloated boilerplate central in comparison.

This pretty much prevents me from taking anything coming out of the Eclipse Foundation seriously.



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