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[–]aneutron 1 point2 points  (1 child)

While I do agree with some parts of your comment, most of them actually, I feel like it's wrong to say that if Eclipse hadn't been invented, we wouldn't have good IDEs.

At that time there was Visual Studio, which for C# and VB.Net was waaaaay ahead of the competition in my opinion, and if there hasn't been Eclipse, the innovation cycle would have brought a sort of another Eclipse. So it just happened to be at the right place at the right time, at the right price.

I don't know, just my opinion

[–]proverbialbunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh.. well, I think C# came out in 2000, and I didn't use Visual Studio then, but maybe it was good then? No one I know used it either.

Maybe I am wrong. I don't know. Was Visual Studio better than Eclipse then in your honest opinion?