I'd rather fund Chrome, if it can be divested from Google and managed by a separate nonprofit. I'd consider funding Firefox too, but only if it isn't managed by Mozilla.
Mozilla has really lost their way and have not been a good steward of Firefox.
Are you sure the physical media is suitable for archival purposes? Many discs degrade over time due to sunlight, oxidation, mechanical damages (scratches etc.) and such. I wouldn't count on them being readable in 5+ years unless the manufacturer has done accelerated aging tests and wants to vouch for their suitability.
It's also doubtful that BDXL readers are going to be available in the future. Physical discs are getting rarer and rarer.
Yeah, in some parts. California suffers from rolling blackouts during wildfire season. It's going to get worse before it gets better because of climate change, a bankrupt utility, and the time it takes to properly bury all the power cables.
Does Apple do most Webkit development too, not just Safari? I thought it was originally spun off from KHTML. Did Apple take over most of the development at some point?
All the cool kids are on VScode or Cursor, but I still use and love my boring old Jetbrains IDEs every day. It makes me feel old every time I see someone else's screenshot and realize I am pretty much the only one in all the companies I've ever worked for who likes Jetbrains. Too bad! It's a great IDE.
The main reason I keep using it is that the search files is so much faster and I like being able to edit lines in the search results. The other killer built-in feature is the Git "Resolve conflicts..." which other tools have, but not built into the editor. And for RubyMine, Show definition works more often than with any other editor I've seen.
I very very reluctantly moved from Eclipse IDE to IntelliJ IDEA. I still feel like the migration was three steps forward two steps back. (edit) IDEA is a perfectly nice IDE, don't get me wrong, I just don't really see why it got all the love back in the day.
On a similar note I vastly prefer Maven for my own Java based projects; I despise Gradle as being strictly inferior.
I never used Eclipse so can't speak to that, but compared to VScode, it's got a lot of great built-ins: symbol lookup and searches work well, Typescript support is great, the debugger works well, built-in Gutlens-style version control GUI, a good 3-way diff and merge tool, linters, refactoring tools, etc. Also database browser, diagrammer, multi language support...
Most of that is also available in some form with VScode plug-ins, but I prefer Jetbrains's monolithic approach with batteries included. It's what I want from my IDE (everything out of the box).
And aren't Maven and Gradle build tools, not IDEs? (Sorry for the noob question; JS dev here)
I like IDEA plenty... it's better in some ways than Eclipse, worse in others. I don't get why the Java dev market swept wholesale over to the paid-for tool in preference to the free one.
(edit: actually I think the reason may be that there was a perception that Eclipse was buggy/slow but I think that was always down to bad plugins - I'm not sure if IDEA had a better plugin system or just better curation of them)
I haven't itemised it, but Eclipse has most if not all of the features you list.
Maven and Gradle are indeed build tools, there I was just addressing the original question of "outdated" tools that I still use in preference to the current shiny one. Confusing in context I admit, sorry.
What was the Larry Ellison attributed quote about programmers ? Google shows me sth along the "the computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than fashion industry".
It rings quite true - new tools comes and gets the market because they are the new hot shot in town (like eclipse and then intellij once was). Its only matter of time before VSCode will go the same way.
As for eclipse I personally blame lack of funding and interest from new open source devs after it lost its status.
I still use it daily but with each new Eclipse release and my code base growth it really slows down to a halt sometimes and it becomes more and more frustrating. Maybe its time to switch to something that is kept alive by more than few old guys.
Mozilla has really lost their way and have not been a good steward of Firefox.
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