eclipse still uses ctags
the new strategy is to implement indexers as plugins , which will allow users to choose different indexer for different projects.
There are pros and cons for ctags, macros are one of them, but can be handled, event microsoft intellisense is not prefect and doing some basic mistakes (he cant parse wxWidgets properly as well)
in overall, i think there are more pros then cons, but hey thats me
Eran