I believe that Eclipse 2.x already had most of these features, but it certainly was in almost all 3.x versions as far as I remember. That IDE was amazingly far ahead of its time. Even 20 years later, tools like VS Code feel like a shocking regression in capabilities to me.
Well, regression in that feature set, but it’s better in other features, many of which drove people off of Eclipse.
When it worked, it was really, really good, agree. My experience was that it usually didn’t though, swap branches a few times and the caches would be broken, time for “invalidate caches and restart”. Multiple times per week, each time it’d take an hour to re-index.. that was a lot of time we got back again when we switched to IntelliJ
This sounds like the sort of feature that will show up in a "vintage software" youtube video essay in a few years. I kinda want to go find it and give it a whirl.
