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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...