Eclipse vs Sublime Text + Go Sublime

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins.

Eclipse uses a custom compiler (which can also be used outside of Eclipse), which is often faster than the normal Java Compiler, especially for incremental compilation.

Eclipse is an open source project and free to use.

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable.

Shows threads, concurrency locks, and conditional breakpoints.

Because Eclipse is based on SWT, it uses the native font rendering and thus looks better than other IDEs on some Linux systems, where the Java font rendering is not optimal.

The concept of perspectives is outstanding. It puts right tools at your fingertips, keeping the tools you currently don't need out from the workbench. For example, in VCS perspective it's all about versions and branches. In debug perspective it's all about state.
In java ee project it can show http endpoints in a very accessible manner.

Fast, suitable for big projects, customizable, supports UML, many programming languages, plugins, and widgets vs NetBeans and JDeveloper. Support for Workspaces and Perspectives. Long term tested, free of charge, vs IntelliJ IDEA.

Sublime Text uses TextMate's syntax declaration files to support new languages, has all its menus and keybindings generated from JSON files, and can be scripted to add new features using Python.

If Sublime Text doesn't support a desired language or feature, it's usually not long before someone implements it themselves - examples include the plugin package manager and the 'open in browser' command.

Sublime Text has a minimap on the side that provides a top-down view of the file and keyboard shortcuts for most actions. It's also supports a large number of languages and general text editing features out of the box.

Does not drown you in keyboard shortcuts or unintuitive concepts as you start using it, but high-level functionality can still be easily accessed when the need for it arises.

Need to buy only once for ALL your computers with ALL OS, without expiration date, and can be used for business.
Only major upgrades need to be paid again.

Looks consistently the same across Windows, OS X and Linux.

Sublime Text, while being lighter-weight than an IDE, still supports many IDE features.

• Text from the current file is used to provide autocomplete
• Project Support (folder browsing, scoped history, build-system declarations)
• Refactoring support is emulated through multi-select, project-wide find & replace, and regular expression search
• Syntax-aware selection and GoTo for quickly jumping to locations in the project
• Snippets & Macros
• A Python console for everything else