Bazel vs Eclipse

Overview

Eclipse

Stacks2.7K

Followers2.3K

Votes392

Bazel

Stacks313

Followers579

Votes133

Bazel vs Eclipse: What are the differences?

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Build System: Bazel is a build system that focuses on handling large codebases with multiple dependencies efficiently. It uses a declarative language for defining builds, enabling reproducible and incremental builds. In contrast, Eclipse is an IDE that provides a development environment for coding, testing, and debugging projects but does not serve as a standalone build system.
Language Support: Bazel supports multiple programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, and more, making it versatile for diverse projects. On the other hand, Eclipse is primarily focused on Java development, providing robust tools and plugins specific to Java development and integration.
Workspace Configuration: Bazel utilizes a WORKSPACE file to define external dependencies and configurations, promoting project modularity and scalability. Eclipse, on the other hand, manages workspace configurations within the IDE itself, with project settings stored in project-specific files.
Scalability: Bazel is designed to handle large-scale projects with speed and efficiency, optimizing build processes for incremental and parallel builds. Eclipse, while capable of managing medium-sized projects effectively, may encounter performance issues with extremely large codebases.
Community Support: Bazel has a growing community of developers and contributors, continuously improving and expanding its capabilities. Eclipse, being a longstanding IDE, also has a large user base and active community support, providing a wide range of plugins and extensions for various development needs.
Integration with CI/CD: Bazel offers seamless integration with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, enabling automated testing and deployment processes. Eclipse, while compatible with CI/CD systems, may require additional plugins or configurations for seamless integration.

In Summary, Bazel and Eclipse differ in their core functions as a build system and IDE, language support, workspace configuration, scalability, community support, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.

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Advice on Eclipse, Bazel

christy

Program Manager

Jul 1, 2020

Needs adviceon

Python

Eclipse

IntelliJ IDEA

UPDATE: Thanks for the great response. I am going to start with VSCode based on the open source and free version that will allow me to grow into other languages, but not cost me a license ..yet.

I have been working with software development for 12 years, but I am just beginning my journey to learn to code. I am starting with Python following the suggestion of some of my coworkers. They are split between Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA for IDEs that they use and PyCharm is new to me. Which IDE would you suggest for a beginner that will allow expansion to Java, JavaScript, and eventually AngularJS and possibly mobile applications?

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Manabu

CEO, Co-Founder at WinguMD

Jun 13, 2020

Decided

I originally chose IntelliJ over Eclipse, as it was close enough to the look and feel of Visual Studio and we do go back and forth between the two. We really begin to love IntelliJ and their suite of IDEs so we are now using AppCode for the IOS development because the workflow is identical with the IntelliJ. IntelliJ is super complex and intimidating at first but it does afford a lot of nice utilities to get us produce clean code.

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Simon

Software Engineer at Picnic Technologies

Aug 21, 2020

Review

Notepad++ is insanely simplistic. It doesn't help much with the coding, as it doesn't have stuff like auto-completion. Atom is a great editor for pretty much any language. It has a plugin ide-java to support Java programming. When starting with Java, I would recommend it. But, when becoming even a bit better in the language, I would suggest a more mature IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse. The refactoring and code manipulation tools make it a lot quicker to program. Only when getting started it might be a bit too much to both learn a language AND learn an IDE. So Atom might be better to get started.

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Detailed Comparison

Eclipse	Bazel
Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.	Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
-	Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages;High-level build language: Projects are described in the BUILD language, a concise text format that describes a project as sets of small interconnected libraries, binaries and tests. By contrast, with tools like Make you have to describe individual files and compiler invocations;Multi-platform support: The same tool and the same BUILD files can be used to build software for different architectures, and even different platforms. At Google, we use Bazel to build both server applications running on systems in our data centers and client apps running on mobile phones;Reproducibility: In BUILD files, each library, test, and binary must specify its direct dependencies completely. Bazel uses this dependency information to know what must be rebuilt when you make changes to a source file, and which tasks can run in parallel. This means that all builds are incremental and will always produce the same result;Scalable: Bazel can handle large builds
Statistics
Stacks 2.7K	Stacks 313
Followers 2.3K	Followers 579
Votes 392	Votes 133
Pros & Cons
Pros 131 Does it all 76 Integrates with most of tools 64 Easy to use 63 Java IDE 32 Best Java IDE Cons 14 2000 Design 9 Bad performance 4 Hard to use	Pros 28 Fast 20 Deterministic incremental builds 17 Correct 16 Multi-language 14 Enforces declared inputs/outputs Cons 3 No Windows Support 2 Bad IntelliJ support 1 Lack of Documentation 1 Poor windows support for some languages 1 Constant breaking changes
Integrations
Java	Java Objective-C C++

What are some alternatives to Eclipse, Bazel?

PhpStorm

PhpStorm is a PHP IDE which keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

WebStorm

WebStorm is a lightweight and intelligent IDE for front-end development and server-side JavaScript.

NetBeans IDE

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

PyCharm

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

Apache Maven

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

Android Studio

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.

RubyMine

JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities.

Gradle

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

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Bazel vs Eclipse: What are the differences?

<Write Introduction here>

Build System: Bazel is a build system that focuses on handling large codebases with multiple dependencies efficiently. It uses a declarative language for defining builds, enabling reproducible and incremental builds. In contrast, Eclipse is an IDE that provides a development environment for coding, testing, and debugging projects but does not serve as a standalone build system.
Language Support: Bazel supports multiple programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, and more, making it versatile for diverse projects. On the other hand, Eclipse is primarily focused on Java development, providing robust tools and plugins specific to Java development and integration.
Workspace Configuration: Bazel utilizes a WORKSPACE file to define external dependencies and configurations, promoting project modularity and scalability. Eclipse, on the other hand, manages workspace configurations within the IDE itself, with project settings stored in project-specific files.
Scalability: Bazel is designed to handle large-scale projects with speed and efficiency, optimizing build processes for incremental and parallel builds. Eclipse, while capable of managing medium-sized projects effectively, may encounter performance issues with extremely large codebases.
Community Support: Bazel has a growing community of developers and contributors, continuously improving and expanding its capabilities. Eclipse, being a longstanding IDE, also has a large user base and active community support, providing a wide range of plugins and extensions for various development needs.
Integration with CI/CD: Bazel offers seamless integration with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, enabling automated testing and deployment processes. Eclipse, while compatible with CI/CD systems, may require additional plugins or configurations for seamless integration.

Bazel vs Eclipse

Overview