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Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine (visualstudiomagazine.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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The project home page.

The Github

Looks just like VS Code and I think it's still built on electron so take that as you will.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is their "light IDE" basically, the equivalent of VS Code. Their Java IDE is the full thing, well, Eclipse. Although I personally prefer IntelliJ IDEA.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Is anyone using Eclipse anymore? I’ve barely heard anything about it the past 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Had a coworker five years ago who wouldn’t let go of it. And he was really productive.

To my understanding, there are still some things it does better than IntelliJ, for instance being able to add all missing imports in one go instead of one by one.
I’ll admit though that this is a rather tiny advantage, and as I haven’t touched Java in quite a while, it may be even outdated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That’s good to hear. I haven’t touched Eclipse in maybe 15 years and back then it fueled me a burning hatred for IDEs. It felt like a huge confusing mess. But maybe it has become more streamlined lately.

Now I have grown out of my hatred and can’t imagine a day without (non Eclipse) IDEs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have used it about 3 years ago and it was still a confusing mess. I recommend sticking with IntelliJ for JVM development for now.

[–] learningduck 3 points 5 months ago

It's still a hot mess. Helped my wife set it up for developing a Java webapp with Tomcat and it's such a mess to set up, compared to IntelliJ that I could just set up a Springboot easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is outdated. It just requires two clicks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which clicks? I haven't found them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A shocking amount of microcontroller manufacturers have eclipse based IDEs for their chips. Thought that seems to be going out of style, luckily.