Well, as far as Eclipse goes, I'm forced to use it in the office, and since then it's somewhat grown on me, i use it for PHP, C/C++, Java and any other project i need to do, it's just generically nice
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Craig "FrostyCoolSlug" McLure
Network Administrator of the ChatSpike IRC Network
Reviving an ancient thread. But i also use Eclipse now for Java programming. Its a programmers heaven for sure. Makes you lazy in checking your syntax, as Eclipse does a lot of things for you.
About speed, since i run it on a pretty high-end system (2 gig ram, code duo processor) it runs pretty good! ;-)