> 1. Without asking you to break any commitments: does near future means 6 > mos? Our goal is before the end of the year. > 2. How speedy it is on a reasonable devel machine? Like 500 MHz x86 CPU > with > plenty of RAM? Or on a 350 MHz SPARC? Performance on small to moderate applications is acceptable on a machine of that caliber (I worked on a 500 MHz machine for about a week while mine was in the shop). Performance continues to improve. > 3. How good is the class browser? To some degree, the quality of a class browser is a matter of taste. I like Eclipse's very much. > 4. Support for key bindings? Support for VI emulation? Not yet. > 5. Tags support? I mean put the cursor over a word and type <magic> and > you jump to the definition. Yes. > 6. Autocompletion? Yes. > 7. diff/patch support? Not yet. > 8. Plugins for RCS/CVS/Subversion/ClearCase? Eclipse currently ships with a CVS plugin. > 9. <wishfull_thinking mode="pie-in-the-sky"> > Compilable with gcj to native code? > </wishfull_thinking> Not yet. Noted though. :) Thanks for the feedback, - Jared