Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10 Years

msmoriarty writes with news that the Eclipse foundation is ten years old this week. Although Eclipse was released in 2001, development was controlled by IBM until the creation of the independent Eclipse Foundation in 2004. "According to Eclipse Foundation Director Mike Milinkovich, that's a major reason Eclipse was able to thrive: 'IBM....did an exemplary job of setting Eclipse free ... We became the first open source organization to show that real competitors could collaborate successfully within the community.' He also talks about misconceptions about Eclipse, its current open source success, and what he sees for the future."

Comments

Worked with it for months - still prefer Netbeans

[mark-t]

I always found Eclipse to be very fidgety, and I've only ever been able to get one non-java project debugging properly inside of it. Conversely, netbeans ... well.. it just works. It has full C++11 support these days, and is, in my opinion, much friendlier to pure java development, using ant as its native build tool.

(My money's on this comment being modded down by eclipse fanboys, ah, but what the hell, I'll post it anyways.)

Re:Java

[Anonymous Coward]

There are many things a VM like Java can do that you can't do in C++

The JVM is written in C++.

Re:Java

[0123456]

Have you ever looked at the code behind eclipse? It's terrifying!

No, I haven't. But I'll concede that anyone who can write bad code in Java can write much worse code in C++.

Re:Is there a memory leak or is it just Flashbuild

[H0p313ss]

Have you adjusted the heap memory settings in eclipse.ini?

Here's the guide I wrote for using the IBM JVM for RSA and RTC, Oracle/JVM settings are similar.