Visual Age eclipsed

Before I forget, which is what I'm trying to avoid by using this blog, talked with the guy from work who'll be going over to the same company I'll go going to soon about Java development. He showed me Eclipse, a development environment written in Java, running quite smoothly and sorta supporting C++, obviously it supports Java. I was suprised by the slickness and responsiveness of it but I'm told it actually uses native OS GUI support so it should be way faster than Swing.

Apparently it was it donated by IBM to the open source community and based upon the Visual Age development environment which I last used back in 2000 for my engineering work experience. Eclipse is what he'll be using at the new place, and since we're both working in Java I guess I'll be using it as well. Visual Age was quite good so this should be even bettter yet still familiar which should ease some of my new job jitters.