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Eclipse with JSDT vs Coda 2

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When comparing Eclipse with JSDT vs Coda 2, the Slant community recommends Coda 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” Coda 2 is ranked 30th while Eclipse with JSDT is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Coda 2 is:

Coda 2 comprises all you would expect from an IDE: it supports multiple languages (including all the standards); it performs autocomplete of project names, as well as language functions; it supports SVN and GIT; it has good support for plugins (or you can write your own); it has a configurable editor; and it has a built-in preview.

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Pros

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Provides quick fixes

Eclipse with JSDT provides you with quick fixes every time a warning or error is raised by the IDE. This feature is particularly helpful at places in code where errors were caused by the programmer just being a little "lazy", such as missing out the + sign between two operands or a variable being out of scope.

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Smart Code completion

Just like all other IDEs, Eclipse offers you inline code completion (even with any external JS libraries added to the project).

Pro
Free and cross-platform

Eclipse runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, and is totally free of cost.

Pro
Code refactoring

Eclipse's refactoring features are quite similar to Webstorm's. It provides almost the same functionalities which include renaming, moving, and member extraction to make your code tidier

Pro
Code auto-completion for brackets and parenthesis

This feature is particularly useful when you've added a lot of nesting in your code and you're unable to recall which opening bracket corresponds to which closing one.

Pro
Large selection of plugins

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

Pro
Highly customizable

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

Pro
Seamless integration with web servers like Apache or Jetty

Eclipse lets you integrate web servers (like Apache or Jetty) into the IDE, which you could use for in-container testing or providing services.

Pro
Good integration with git using eGit plugin

Pulling, pushing, staging, stashing, etc., are all available in Eclipse as IDE functionalities.

Pro
Real IDE with all the benefits

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Cons

Con
Uses a lot of memory

Eclipse hogs a lot of memory, although this can be controlled by the IDE start-up ini file.

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Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources.

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Support and problem solving is difficult to find

The Eclipse forums have more tumbleweed than users. Stack-overflow also has very little info.

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Defective UI

There are several things in Coda that simply don't work, and never have. For instance, the root directory for your local and remote files is simply not honored. For every project, you can specify the root directory for its files. But when you open the project in Coda, it doesn't go there. The file browser just shows whatever the last directory was that you were using, and will write files to the wrong place. Thus, it defeats the purpose of setting the home directory in the first place.
Also, splitting the editor doesn't work. If you've done any programming, you know how important it is to be able to view two files simultaneously. Coda fails to do this, with a bizarre insistence on making the two panes dependent on each other.

Con
Support for Mac and commercial use only

Coda 2 is only available on Mac (even though that does make it a native app, meaning its much faster). Coda 2 costs $99 after the 30 day free trial is up.