NetBeans is the second Java IDE I used (the first one was JBuilder, but it wasn't free so I "evaluated" it). NetBeans was batteries-included but was slow and more towards desktop (Swing) development. Eclipse won, hands down. However, I got frustrated installing plugins and making them work together, so I switched to IntelliJ and never looked back. VSCode got the Eclipse vibes but I guess I'm too old for this.
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Eclipse user here. I haven't installed any plugins (other than a few home-grown ones) in many years now. It mostly ships with everything I need by default.
It is getting a bit long in the tooth, and I'm saddened to see that the Eclipse foundation seems to be spending way more time and energy on Theia than on Eclipse these days :-(.
IntelliJ and VSCode are non-starters for me. There's something about their UX that rubs me the wrong way. I've tried both extensively, and can't get used to them.
Theia is really nice, but it has the fatal flaw of no Apple Silicon support. So you can’t really switch a team to it. You have to us VSCode right now. As soon as Apple Silicon support is done however, I’m pretty sure many will switch over.
No thanks. It's clunky, slow, laggy. Electron was a poor choice IMO. One of the things that makes Eclipse great is the UI toolki; fast & properly desktop-integrated. None of this clunky JS/TS hot garbage that runs in a crippled browser. It's the worst of both worlds.