The open source IDE has become what one official described as an "integrated everything environment" but it may now be time to pair down the toolset, back into an IDE.
"Downloaded about 1 million times each month, the open source IDE has become a major force in software development, battling other giants such as Microsoft Visual Studio for the hearts and minds of developers," Paul Krill writes in Eclipse at a crossroads.
Such a pairing down "should not be feared but embraced as a sign of maturity in Eclipse," Oliver Cole, who leads the Eclipse Test and Tools Platform Project.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 4, 2008 05:25 AM
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