Wednesday, December 24, 2008

New Features in Eclipse 3.5

In an attempt to attract younger developers, the next version of Eclipse is to include Unlockable Achievements:


Beta testers are encouraged to submit their own Achievement ideas. Suggestions include:

  • Anally Retentive: remove all warnings from your code. Yes, even those ones about serialVersionUID

  • Saintly Patience: use BigDecimal for more than 5 minutes without wishing for operator overloading in Java

  • Ant Fan: start an Ant build and watch it finish without visiting Slashdot in between

5 comments:

Georgi said...

I'd have an achievement "Wow that's the difference":

Show the difference between World of Warcraft and Eclipse.

Be honest: Is that thingie really necessary?

Gregory Holt said...

"Drummer Boy": Repeated the same two to five keystrokes over fifty times in a row without pausing more than a quarter second.

jtsnake said...

This is awesome. It totally reminds me of Team Fortress 2! :)

Hohonuuli said...

"Build Maven": Successfully use Eclipse to work on a project that uses Maven 2 for it's builds.

Hohonuuli said...

"Unbreakable": Install 2 or more eclipse plugins from unofficial plugin repositories and actually get them to work.