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I wonder why these forks don't build off Eclipse Theia. Is it because of the Eclipse license?
by aniviacat 11mo ago
I wonder why these forks don't build off Eclipse Theia. Is it because of the Eclipse license?
- desireco42 11mo agoI am not fan of Eclipse, mostly due to bad experience with it, but this is excellent idea, if more people and companies would invest in it's development, we would have alternative to VS Code.
- chuckadams 11mo agoJust the Eclipse legacy and development approach perhaps. Eclipse is 24 years old and its codebase stems from VisualAge before that, so I imagine it's ... idiosyncratic. Probably the most successful thing built on OSGi, though I dont imagine Theia brought any of that along.
- gmueckl 11mo agoAt least for a while, Eclipse seemed like an Architect Astronaut's happy fever dream: actual bits if implementations hidden behind 5 to 10 nested interfaces and facades wherever I looked. I remember that at one point that I wanted to debug some weird behavior in the Plugin Development Kit and after sinking about half a day into exploring the source code, I didn't even see a single line of code that was actually doing anything meaningful. It was quite shocking to my old junior level self.
- sakesun 11mo agoEclipse Theia is based on VSCode, not the legacy Eclipse Java IDE.
- tecleandor 11mo agoWell, it uses the just the Monaco editor, but the rest is not based on VS Code.
- theshrike79 11mo agoI had the displeasure of using Eclipse in the 2000s Java times. I don't have many fond experiences of it. We finally discovered IDEA and never looked back.