Thomas Froment's blog

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 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...

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...

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 IDE has been a cornerstone of the open source software development community for decades. Backed by the Eclipse IDE Working Group – supported by 12 companies since 2021 and fueled by a passionate community of over 200 contributors – we continue to deliver a stable release every quarter...

It's undeniable that today's software innovation stems from the Open Source community. Celebrating 20 years of the Eclipse Foundation, the EclipseCon has evolved into the Open Community Experience (OCX) . This rebranding reflects the foundation's expansion beyond developer tooling into diverse domains like real-time embedded systems, Dataspaces, Java ecosystems (Adoptium...