after reading the first part, what I will say is that I have used Eclipse and it was fine

there were some niggles but it could have been worse

but it does go on to say that if you learn it properly it is really good and will save you a lot of time by code completion etc

Indeed

very interesting to read how iOS does it's rendering

I like that, very clever

yeah

and it's interesting to see how the ui is redrawn each time

no wonder our heros were so damn slow

yeah - that is commonplace and, at least used to, be one way of drawing 3d graphics (Direct X used to do it I think)

but it was hardware accelerated with 3d graphiccs

graphics*

I like Eclipse