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Recognition for Openness: Theia AI Receives the 2025 CODiE Award

Friday, November 14, 2025 - 10:30 by Thomas Froment
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...

AWS invests in strengthening open source infrastructure at the Eclipse Foundation

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 09:29 by Mike Milinkovich
In our recent open letter and blog post on sustainable stewardship of open source infrastructure, we called on the industry to take a more active role in supporting the systems and services that drive today’s software innovation. Today, we’re excited to share a powerful example of what that kind of...

Building smarter, scalable AI: how Eclipse LMOS is redefining agent design

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - 08:34 by Thabang Mashologu
Artificial intelligence is evolving at an incredible pace, and open source innovation is keeping stride. Across the Eclipse Foundation, an expanding ecosystem of projects is redefining what AI can do, with efforts that span developer tools, data governance, trustworthy model design, and intelligent agent orchestration. What ties them all together...

TheiaCon 2025: Two Days of Open, AI-Native Innovation in Developer Tools

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 13:46 by Thomas Froment
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...

Why Extending GitHub Copilot in VS Code May Not Be the Best Fit for Your AI-Native Development Tool

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 10:48 by Thomas Froment
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...

When “Open” Isn’t Open Enough: Rethinking Trust in Dev Tools

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 13:00 by Thomas Froment
The rise of AI is redefining the development tools landscape, fast. It’s no longer just better code navigation or debuggers. Today, IDEs are becoming intelligent assistants, with AI at their core. But with this shift comes new tension: control, ownership, and freedom in developer tools are being challenged in ways...

Eclipse Cloud DevTools Contributor Award Q1/2025 goes to EclipseSource for Theia AI

Monday, April 7, 2025 - 06:00 by Thomas Froment
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...

The AI-powered Theia IDE: Open Source Developer Tools in the AI Era

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 05:57 by Thomas Froment
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...