Which IDE for Me?

Software, it seems to me - is where it is. And this is where I want to be.

And once I made that decision, I had to decide which software community to join. Software is a social process, and who you are with, makes a huge difference.

The most obvious choice was Microsoft, because they seemed to have everything. Including their flagship IDE, Visual Studio - that has everything imaginable. But that was a problem - everything is too much! Too much memory, and too complicated to run. I bought a cheap, litle Windows 10 laptop to install it on - but after many tries, I had to give up. Perfection was beyond me.

The Java Programming language, is not the latest one around - but it has staying power, and is very popular. Being part of this crowd, would be easy.

And it has an excellent IDE: Eclipse - that I could download easily on my Windows 7 laptop. But not not my Windows 10 laptop, that doesn't seem capable of doing much of anything. You have to have an expensive machine to be an Windows 10 programmer.