What version of Eclipse is recommended for nRF52

[Steven Grunza]

I am about to start using the nRF52 for several projects and would like to know which version of Eclipse is recommended? Since Eclipse can be customized in many ways I'm looking for an answer more along the lines of Mars, Neon, Oxygen, etc rather than a specific set of plugins to use.

I would rather not deal with bugs or problems caused by trying to use too new (or too old) of a version of Eclipse for it to work well with the Nordic SDK (which looks like it is up to version 14.2 now).

If it matters my development environments will be either a VirtualBox'd Ubuntu 16.04LTS on a Win7 host or Fedora 26. Both are 64-bit.

[RK]

Did you look at Segger Embedded Studio as an alternative? I've found shoehorning embedded C development into Eclipse, and debugging over the old flaky GDB server, a huge amount of frustration and abandoned it years ago. So unless Eclipse is something you use often and you're generally very comforable with, I'd use an IDE which was designed ground up for embedded development and comes with all the knobs and buttons you might want to use.

.. and of course it's now supported directly by the latest SDKs from Nordic to the point all the examples have SES project files to use.