[news.eclipse.newcomer] Newcomer first impression: Piece of Crap

[ddyer@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Dyer)]

This was my third or fourth attempt to grok eclipse, and every time, my
first impression has been "what a piece of crap".  Eclipse is monumentally
unfriendly to experienced have users with complex projects to import.

Well, this time I finally got past it all and got one of my major projects
running. so I can offer some more coherent complaints.

1) The message "resource x is out of sync with the file system" is
ubiquitous.  There seem to be at least three variations on it.  Since
there is no other activity than what eclipse is doing, there is no
excuse for it to be confused or breaking itself in this way.

2) there ought to be a way to point eclipse at a project already
in place, and get it to use the sources in place.

3) there ought to be a way to include/exclude files or directories 
from a project build list, without removing them from eclipse's
hierarchy view, and especially without deleting them from the file
system.  Mature projects accumulate a lot of extra stuff which needs
to not confuse the IDE.