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That's how it was designed, from even back when it was VisualAge and written in SmallTalk. Eclipse is basically a language-neutral UI "shell", the "Eclipse Too
by atombender 2y ago
That's how it was designed, from even back when it was VisualAge and written in SmallTalk.
Eclipse is basically a language-neutral UI "shell", the "Eclipse Tool Platform", where all language/code-related functionality is provided as bundles of extensions. And then extensions can be extended, and so on.
Eventually they standardized the extension system around an extension/component framework called OSGi. Not sure if this new Eclipse IDE uses it.