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This is indeed a major deal, and having the Eclipse Foundation shepherd it is wonderful. Microsoft deserves praise and even adulation for this, but time will t
by freedomben 3y ago
This is indeed a major deal, and having the Eclipse Foundation shepherd it is wonderful.
Microsoft deserves praise and even adulation for this, but time will tell how well supported the project is. They have a good track record so I'm very optimistic, but this is going to require a lot of ongoing support. That shouldn't be and isn't on Microsoft alone now, but they may have to shoulder a larger burden while getting things moving.
- LispSporks22 3y agoAre they dumping it on Eclipse and waving bye-bye or are they sticking around to develop it further? Many projects seem to be ditched by corporations and kind of orphaned in Eclipse and Apache
- refulgentis 3y agoYeah...I'd love a blow by blow on Eclipse, my (joking) understanding prior to this article was it was an IDE open source project that grew so unwieldly/abandoned that some combo of JetBrains & Google was able to co-opt it and end up owning it entirely.
- twisteriffic 3y agoA _lot_ of Microsoft's open source projects are basically ghost towns. EF core and the SQL server driver appear to be maybe a handful of people, and there is a disturbing amount of "the only person who understood this is gone so we can't fix it.". Get into some of the more esoteric projects and you're lucky if there's someone dropping in to accept a PR once a year. I'm assuming that every dev ends up consumed by endless rewrites of the Azure client libraries.