Eclipse IDE and Platform news on Fosdem 2020
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- The Eclipse community is growing, with more active committers contributing new functionality to projects like JDT. - Eclipse releases now occur every 3 months, with the latest release (2019-09) seeing over 4.5 million downloads. - Performance improvements are an ongoing focus, with significant speed increases to startup time in recent releases. - Eclipse is adapting the popular Language Server Protocol used by Visual Studio Code to improve language support for tools like JavaScript, XML, and Dart/Flutter.
Eclipse IDE and Platform news on Fosdem 2020
- 1. Eclipse IDE and Platform News FOSDEM, 02.02.2020 Lars Vogel https://twitter.com/vogella
- 2. Lars Vogel Eclipse PMC memberEclipse PMC member Eclipse Platform project leadEclipse Platform project lead vogella GmbH CEO, whichvogella GmbH CEO, which supports customer Eclipsesupports customer Eclipse RCP and mobileRCP and mobile implementations andimplementations and trainingstrainings
- 5. Project is not a company controlled project anymore
- 6. Individuals working on the code
- 7. The leadership team of the Eclipse IDE
- 8. More and more active committers (aka growing community)
- 9. Eclipse IDE releases every 3 months
- 10. New naming results in lots of updates 2018-09 ..... 2019-06 2019-09 2019-12 etc.
- 11. Update site points to latest version Resulting is latest Java support and similar new features as previously in every yearly release
- 12. 4.5 Million (!!!!!) downloads of Eclipse 2019-09 Plus unknown update numbers (will be captured for future releases)
- 14. Platform work
- 15. UIX Shorter text and better icons
- 16. Improve the dark theme
- 17. Performance work
- 20. Interactive performance 2019-12 to 2020-03
- 21. Significant improments in startup Example: Minimal Eclipse IDE starts in ~4 seconds
- 22. JDT got several new committers which contribute new functionality and actively review incoming community contributions
- 23. -> JDT is again growing its features and community
- 25. Automatic code cleanup via save actions or via batch cleanup (right- mouse-click-> Source -> Cleanup)
- 27. Continue the path for improve performance, better Java support and UIX
- 28. Embrasing VsCode
- 30. Language Server Protocol ● Bring latest support for: ● JavaScript ● XML ● Dart and Flutter ● Maven ● C++ (?????) ● more....
- 31. If you love VsCode for Java you are using Eclipse.... VsCode and Eclipse are helping each other (or in other words as we are in Belgien: they are beer buddies :-)
- 33. Eclipse roadmap based on meritocracy Meritocracy is a political philosophy which holds that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively according to merit.
- 34. Building the Eclipse SDK git clone -b master –recursive git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.pla tform.releng.aggregator.git mvn clean verify -DskipTests=true
- 35. And it is very much open of contributions..... 5 minutes exercise how to contribute: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelop ment/article.html#exericse-eclipse-user-creation-and- gerrit-server-configuration
- 36. Integration repository Contributor 1 Contributor 2 Reviewer Fetch/ Push Fetch Fetch/ Push CI Build Server (Jenkins) Fetch Gerrit Reviews Fetch Fetch Approve
- 38. Summary Eclipse community grows Eclipse is already fast but gets faster Adapting "VsCode" protocol will improve significantly Eclipse
- 39. Thank you For further questions: @vogella http://www.vogella.com Commercial support: sales@vogella.com