I've been accused of something horrendous

[anarchotron]

Ya Visual Studio 6.0 is pretty horrendous with a large project as well. At work our source base is around 2 million lines of code, in 203 dsp projects within a single workspace. Talk about slow and crash-o-matic. We must use a script that extracts sub-groups of projects from the dsp (e.g. server, client, tool) to even use the thing. Even with our smaller workspaces, the auto-complete feature corrupts itself, fails to function, and crashes the app. And don’t get me started on the 64 MB PDB size limit that is hard coded into the compiler.

Visual Studio .NET is not an option for this project because the link time is between 5-10 minutes per link! Even with ‘IncrediLink’ it is several minutes. I’m waiting patiently for MS to get thier shizit together with Visual Studio .NET!

@swpalmer

Have you ever waited for Visual Studio.NET to load a reasonably complex project? Just sit there for a minute or two watching the UI flicker like mad

Eclipse is pretty darn awesome, and thankfully NetBeans 5 is catching up too. It still has a way to go in my book, but it has it’s own advantages and it’s nice to see that the NB team isn’t standing still. Competition is good - specially when I end up with free stuff because of it :).

[Vorax]

We use Eclipse on our very large Java project at work - 4.5 million lines of code and CTRL-SHIFT-T is still an instant jump through the code base - and it doesn’t crash or even seem hampered by it. For the speed of that alone, Eclipse is a god send.