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It is not every day that an open source developer tool receives recognition from outside its own ecosystem. This week, Eclipse Theia AI was awarded the 2025 CODiE Award for Best Open Source Development Tool, a distinction granted by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). For those unfamiliar, the...

TheiaCon 2025 is almost here: our two-day online conference (29–30 October, 16:00–19:00 CET) fully dedicated to the Eclipse Theia ecosystem and to the future of AI-native, cloud-based, open developer tools. This year’s agenda is packed with technical depth, innovation, and real-world stories from across the community. Whether you’re building IDEs...

Closed, proprietary AI stacks are reshaping developer tools: often at the expense of transparency, portability, and control. Eclipse Theia takes a different route: a fully open, extensible platform you can inspect, adapt, and deploy on your own terms, whether on the desktop or in the cloud. With Theia, you own...

When organizations plan to build a new tool or IDE today, AI integration is almost always a key requirement from day one. The success of GitHub #Copilot in #VSCode has naturally created a strong desire to offer similar experiences, such as code completion, terminal help, commit message generation, and AI...

📦Can’t Download VSIX Files from the VS Code Marketplace Anymore? Here’s What You Can Do If you've tried to manually download a .vsix file from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace recently, you may have noticed something missing: the download button is gone . Microsoft quietly removed the ability to download...

How can open source tools empower young developers to reimagine healthcare in their local communities? The Code4Health Hackathon set out to explore exactly that: From 14–18 May 2025, high school students from across Southern Africa came together online for this event organised by the Girls Coding Academy in partnership with...

The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools (ECDT) community is pleased to present EclipseSource with the Q1 2025 Contributor Award in recognition of their contribution to the Eclipse ecosystem with Theia AI and the AI-powered Theia IDE . This award highlights EclipseSource's commitment to delivering powerful, open, and fully customizable AI capabilities...

AI in software development is generating a wide range of reactions. Some predict it will replace developers entirely. Others argue current tools are overhyped and provide limited real-world value. Reality, as often, likely lies somewhere in the middle. For those who have experimented with integrating AI into their development workflows...

This month's Eclipse Cloud DevTools Contributor Award goes to Ericsson (represented by Colin Grant) for contributing the web-based Memory Inspector. Congratulations and thanks for your contributions! As you might observe, there is currently a lot of momentum around Theia being adapted in the embedded space. There is even a special...

We are pleased to announce the Alpha release of Eclipse Theia Blueprint, a downloadable template tool for Eclipse Theia, including desktop installers for all major operating systems. It can be used to evaluate the capabilities of Eclipse Theia on the desktop as well as to serve as a “blueprint” upon...