Eclipse Foundation Unveils Open Source Alternative to Microsoft's 'Visual Studio Code' IDE

guest · Apr 4, 2020

Eclipse Foundation offers open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code
March 31, 2020
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/ecl...pen-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/

The Eclipse Foundation just released version 1.0 of an open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code called Eclipse Theia.
Theia is an extensible platform that allows developers to create multi-language cloud and desktop IDEs, allowing them to create entirely new developer experiences.

According to the Eclipse Foundation, the differences between Theia and Visual Studio Code are that Theia has a more modular architecture, Theia was designed from the ground to run on desktop and cloud, and Theia was developed under community-driven and vendor-neutral governance of the Eclipse Foundation.

“Visual Studio Code is one of the world’s most popular development environments. Not only does Theia allow developers to install and reuse VS Code extensions, it provides an extensible and adaptable platform that can be tailored to specific use cases, which is a huge benefit for any organization that wants to deliver a modern and professional development experience. Congratulations to all the Theia committers and contributors on achieving this milestone.”
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Eclipse: The Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Theia 1.0, a True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

– Leading open source adopters for Eclipse Theia include ARM, Arduino, EclipseSource, Ericsson, Gitpod, Google Cloud, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, and TypeFox –
OTTAWA – MARCH 31, 2020 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, today announced the release of Theia 1.0, a true open source alternative to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) software.
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guest · Apr 4, 2020

Eclipse Theia takes aim at Visual Studio Code
April 1, 2020
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3535219/eclipse-theia-takes-aim-at-visual-studio-code.html

Eclipse Theia, an “IDE platform” for building multi-language desktop and web-based IDEs from the same codebase, has reached version 1.0 status.

The Eclipse Foundation describes Theia as a “true” open source answer to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor. Theia even runs Visual Studio Code extensions for capabilities such as Python and Java language support. However, thus far Theia is intended to be fitted into third-party products. An end-user version is on the roadmap for release later this year.

Implemented in TypeScript and available on GitHub, Theia runs in two separate processes—front end and back end—and communicates through JSON-RPC messages over WebSockets or REST APIs over HTTP. The front-end and back-end processes have a dependency injection container to which extensions can contribute.
Eclipse argues that Visual Studio Code, despite being built from open source components, is still controlled by Microsoft.
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