Honestly, I wasn't disappointed. How the heck can anyone claim it is superior to Eclipse? I don't really care if is faster (in numbers, although for me, on Windows, it's definitely not), I don't care if there is more functionality packed "out-of-the-box", because there's not as much to add from as in Eclipse. Who cares about Eclipse?s speed on Linux if 95% of all developers use Windows??? (or 90%). Btw, allmost all M$ "technologies" are rather pragmatical. They tend to be on the side of: "What do we need" and not "What would look good" (in an academic sense). In the same line of reasoning it is perfectly understandable that SWT-Windows is the primary platform, and all other platforms have to take second place.

Here are my biggest complains:

• Debugging is a pain compared to Eclipse
• A lot of UI things are simply not intuative. Why can I not do a "Right Click" on my project navigator to create a new project? Why to I have to use silly buttons? (That?s all within the first five minutes).
• Poor support for refactorings (Especially compared to 3.1M5a)

A lot of complains around Eclipse performance compared to Netbeans comes down the fact that it actually does something intelligent while you work; e.g. incremental compiles, Quickfix etc. Now that?s some big disadvantage

Sun most get really scared if they put up websites like this.

On some of the "arguments":
It doesn't matter if there are hundreds of desktop Swing apps out there, if noone uses them. Whereas the real Java desktop app of the moment is using SWT.

And I think a lot of Swing-believers get the idea of L&F wrong. Swing has "XP"-L, but definitely not "XP"-F (e.g.). It?s like thinking painting in the right colors and using the right images is all it takes for L&F. Of course SWT is not "real" L&F as well, but for me it is a lot closer to that aim.