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Hi I am a recovering WSAD/RAD user and I am amazed at the conclusions.

IBM's product is so full of really painful bugs. Using MyEclipse is a dream in comparison. Even Eclipse is smoother.

The study doesn't even include IntelliJ IDEA... Quite peculiar don't you think?

@omairkhawaja The study only included IDEs that had enough users to make the cut. You wouldn't want them drawing conclusions based on the experiences of, say, 10 people.

@willcode4beer That's one of the reasons this kind of survey is so interesting. It's easy to assume that one's own opinions (of IDEs or anything else) are representative of everybody else. Especially when you hang out with people who share your opinions... which is natural, since we like to talk to people we agree with.

This particular study didn't do any comparisons or examine opinions based on breadth of experience; other EDC reports do. (This one is a freebie after all so it won't go into as much detail.) Because... well, if you've only used one product, you might be able to say if it fulfills your (known) needs, but you might not be able to compare it to what other products deliver. (Which is good and bad, since you don't know how much to appreciate the good features or to be distressed by the lousy ones.)

This is a transparent plug for some pay-to-play whitepaper. I also noticed that the list didn't include IntelliJ IDEA.

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