Eclipse is only as big as you want it to be, limit your plugins and its not too bad. Even if you add to them they have worked on performance over the years and it has improved both from an eclipse view and java view (both have become more performant over time).
I have seen projects struggle due to the lack of a proper set of documentation on what the user interaction would be. I lead an Eclipse plugin project that started life as a collection of related technologies that were collected to make an editor and build chain for developing mobile web apps. (think pre-IPhone devices with a browser). We eventually got ourselves a UX designer, did some lab experiments with some test subjects and produced a template for the interaction that we used to finish our development.
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Eclipse is only as big as you want it to be, limit your plugins and its not too bad. Even if you add to them they have worked on performance over the years and it has improved both from an eclipse view and java view (both have become more performant over time).
I have seen projects struggle due to the lack of a proper set of documentation on what the user interaction would be. I lead an Eclipse plugin project that started life as a collection of related technologies that were collected to make an editor and build chain for developing mobile web apps. (think pre-IPhone devices with a browser). We eventually got ourselves a UX designer, did some lab experiments with some test subjects and produced a template for the interaction that we used to finish our development.