That's funny, many of the embedded chipmakers are finally standardizing on Eclipse, which means I don't have to relearn a new proprietary IDE when we change chipsets. In that sense Eclipse is way better than environments written 10+ years ago. That's Eclipse's biggest strength at the moment.

I wish there was a Sublime-based IDE with visual debugging support. As a low level developer I still need immediate access to watch windows, memory and registers, and that prevents me from using Sublime for anything more than code refactoring.