You know, as I get into discovery mode, and naturally I get overwhelmed, I find myself “looking for alternatives” which is really a kind of quitting. It’s like saying: I cannot go on like this; there must be something else. There is, but not nearly as good as Eclipse. Yes, it is an over-engineered, overkill monster of complexity. But I don’t have to retain that. In fact, I could work to reduce it and use it.
So, I’d like to help myself a little to reduce the energy I spend finding alternatives to instead spending the same energy discovering what I can. And maybe switch energy from “getting things to work” to: discovering, reverse engineering, and learning. That's what I think Eclipse and the open source world at large is best seen as. Instead of “inventing” things, maybe I could sharpen my skills of anticipating existing "inventions" and using them. Oh, yes; helping myself staying the course in Eclipse: no more searching for alternatives, I’m sticking with Eclipse till completion.