TheiaCon 2024 Was Great!
We had a great TheiaCon 2024 with 12 sessions, featuring 13 speakers, over two days! TheiaCon is an annual virtual conference focused around the Eclipse Theia ecosystem. It brings together a diverse group of Theia developers, adopters, and other contributors. Sessions included Theia AI and IDE AI Integration, Embedded C++ development in the browser, an Open VSX update and Theia Cloud. See the session recordings on our YouTube channel.
Eclipse Announces Open Collaboration Tools Project
The Eclipse Foundation announced the Open Collaboration Tools (OCT) Project. Contributed by TypeFox, a leader in open source tool development, this innovative project enables real-time collaboration for remote developer teams by building on the robust capabilities of the innovative cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) Eclipse Theia. It marks an exciting step forward in advancing cloud-based development tools.
Contributor Award for 4Q Goes to TypeFox for Open Collaboration Tools
The Eclipse Cloud DevTools (ECDT) community presented 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, and vendor-neutral collaboration tools.
Theia IDE AI Integration Continues Apace
Jonas, Maximilian, and Philip of EclipseSource continue, through a series of blogs and articles, to document their advances in the Theia AI framework and Theia IDE enhancements built on the Theia AI framework. The Theia AI framework simplifies developing AI-powered tools and IDEs by providing a robust framework including the required infrastructure, user interfaces, reusable components and patterns that proved to be useful in practice. Theia AI takes care of the foundational AI integration work, allowing engineers to concentrate on what matters most: delivering innovative, domain-specific solutions. These two articles provide a good overview of Theia AI and its application in Theia IDE. This article is particularly exciting. It talks about the recent addition of support for Anthropics's Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard for secure, two-way communication between external systems and AI-powered tools. See their blog for a number of additional informative articles.
Should One Fork VS Code?
Jonas, Maximilian, and Philip of EclipseSource in another article tackle the consideration of whether one should fork VS Code. Given the rate at which our development experiences are evolving with the application of AI integration and assists, achieving the kind of UI fidelity we expect in a top class IDE with the limitations of the VS Code extension API might push one to choose to fork. This article discusses some of the business and technical limitations of forking. They discuss Eclipse Theia as an open IDE platform and compelling alternative to forking.
EclipseCon 2024 Recordings Posted
We had a great series of co-located events at OCX and EclipseCon 2024. Session recordings are now available on our YouTube channel, including talks on Graphical Web Apps with SysOn, an Introduction to the Open Collaboration Tools Project and an experience report on Best Practices for Web-Based Tools.
Theia 1.54, 1.55, 1.56 & 1.56 and Community Release 2024-11
The Theia project was really busy in 4Q with four individual releases and one community release. The individual releases include the introduction and continued improvements of Theia AI including support for Hugging Face and SCANOSS (currently in an experimental state), to help developers ensure open-source licensing compliance when working with AI-generated code. Also, Notebook editor improvements, availability on Snap for simplified installation across Linux distributions and improved VS Code compatibility. For more information, see the New and Noteworthy:
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