Theia

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...

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...

TheiaCon 2024, 4Q Contributor Award to TypeFox, EclipseCon 2024 Recordings, Open Collaboration Tools, and Theia AI!

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools (ECDT) community is pleased to present TypeFox with the Q4 2024 Contributor Award in acknowledgment of their contribution to the Eclipse ecosystem with the Open Collaboration Tools (OCT) project. This award highlights TypeFox’s work on OCT, which enhances remote collaboration for developers by providing adaptable, open...

Theia AI, Sirius Web and SysON, Contribution Award to STMicroelectronics and EclipseSource, and new releases of Theia, Sprotty, JKube and Open VSX

Open VSX, the only open source, vendor-neutral registry for VS Code extensions, now includes support for deprecating extensions—adding flexibility and transparency for both publishers and users.