Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...

Maven creator Jason van Zyl joins the Eclipse foundation to lead development of a plugin combining Maven and Eclipse for greater usability.

Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart.

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot into the Eclipse IDE –, but currently only with AI-supported code completion. An intelligent chat is to follow.