satukubik

Summer is coming! My favorite IDE will release its newest version in three weeks. This time it will be released with code name ‘Ganymede’.

Here are the things that I like in the next release:

1. SVN client. The client is more integrated and more Eclipse-like since it enters Eclipse incubation.
   
2. Ruby support as part of DLTK.
3. Cleaner update page.
   
   
4. The Eclipse Compiler for Java now takes advantage of multiple CPUs. This will be only one thing, it will be faster!
5. Full JavaScript support with customizable formatter and templates.
   
   
6. Old Eclipse’s project can’t use classes that is located in the external place. You have to either wrap it as jar or copy it to the project
   
7. Formatting now can be done only to the edited lines. This is very useful sometimes when editing someone else work. And better yet, you can undo the formatting in one step. Before undoing format is a headache since the cursor can move awkwardly to random position.
   

What still missing from this release are:

1. Visual Editor. I miss this editor. Mantisse and other editors are just sucks in my opinion. Visual Editor is the smartest GUI editor concept I’ve ever found. Too bad that its development is just stucked.
2. Eclipse needs decent UML editor, unfortunately IBM still doesn’t want to open source its Rational product.
3. Project templating. Sometime I want to store a project configuration to be able to create the same project with different name. It will be nice if Eclipse support this in the future.