Cloud Dev Tools

As we reach the end of 2025, I find myself looking back not just at milestones, but at momentum. Twelve months ago, we knew what we had to do: secure the foundations, sustain the platform, welcome new contributors, and prepare for a future defined by extensibility, openness, and AI. The...

Forking VS Code gets you to market fast. Building on a platform gets you a product that lasts. Eclipse Theia is that platform. Over the last two years, a wave of "AI native editors" has launched on top of a fork of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Cursor says...

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...

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...

If you plan to attend Embedded World 2025 Conference from March 11-13, 2025, don’t miss the opportunity to engage with the Eclipse Foundation and the Eclipse Open Source Development Tooling ecosystem. For years, Eclipse IDE & platform (RCP) based development tools have played a pivotal role in the embedded systems...

The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools contributor award this month goes to Evolved Binary for improving the migration guide and process for Eclipse Theia. As representatives, we want to acknowledge Charafeddine Cheraa, Duncan Paterson and Adam Retter. Congratulations and thanks for your contributions! Let us look at the details of this...

In this article, we introduce the embedded special interest group (embedded SIG), hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. The embedded SIG is an open collaboration of embedded vendors and service providers, with the goal of strengthening the open source ecosystem for building web- and cloud-based tools used for embedded development. The...

With EclipseCon 2020 just a few weeks away, we’re taking a closer look at sessions about web and desktop tools and IDEs. This conference track takes us back to our roots — the Eclipse IDE — and into the next generations of IDE platforms, tools, and technologies. With numerous sessions...