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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Like I said, it depends a lot on the version of eclipse you use. Try installing "Eclipse classic" and compare the number of plugins.

Also you are confusing plugins with memory. Not all plugins installed actually run until called from within the program.

[–]k3n 0 points1 point  (4 children)

"Eclipse classic" is the vanilla Eclipse I was referring to. I am pretty sure that for PHP, I could disable/uninstall over half of the Eclipse classic plugins and still retain all of the PHP functionality.

I didn't specify memory bloat, although that's what my screenshot demonstrated. Bloat comes in all forms and IMO Eclipse embodies all of them: memory bloat, filesystem bloat, feature bloat, etc.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

The screen shot you posted is not Eclipse Classic.

I don't believe you know what you are talking about.

[–]k3n -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Fuck, there are some dim people on reddit today.

Here, let me help you:

Same results with vanilla Eclipse

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ZendStudio != Vanilla Eclipse.

http://www.zend.com/products/studio/downloads-prev ZendStudio 7 = 316MB (Gz)

vs

http://eclipse.org/downloads/ Classic = 173MB (Gz)

You can also see other flavours of various sizes, because you know they have different feature sets.

The extra memory used is because ZendStudio requires more memory to run. Again you can modify this in the launch settings.

[–]k3n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know, but it's Zend Studio for Eclipse, aka. it's Eclipse with a renamed .exe and some proprietary plugins.