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Eclipse On MacOS X : Broken - Another SWT-Related Story
A number of Eclipse developers are acknowledging that Eclipse performance on Linux is anemic and the reasons rest with Eclipse.org bug 37683. SWT and GTK are not exactly best buddies. They don't play well together. My previous blog, Why Eclipse Developers are Moving to NetBeans, covers some of this territory. I mentioned that "SWT development has been a huge, unnecessary cost that Eclipse Foundation members have the burden of sharing." Some misunderstand 'cost' to mean 'money'. Not only money. Cost is also now manifesting itself as inconsistent execution behavior across platforms, developers unable to run apps, incompatibilities across platforms, UI idiosyncracies and the missed opportunity of improving a shared common standard J2SE UI toolkit.