Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Eclipse originated in 2001 as an IBM project to replace the Smalltalk-based IBM Visual Age IDEs with one that was portable and Java-based. Another goal was to eclipse Microsoft Visual Studio ...

The Java IDE market is currently a four-way battlefield between Eclipse, IntelliJ, JetBrains‚ NetBeans, and Oracle JDeveloper. (Borland’s announcement that it is getting rid of JBuilder and ...

Eclipse started as a Java IDE, but has since grown to be much, much more. Eclipse projects now cover static and dynamic languages; thick-client, thin-client, and server-side frameworks; modeling ...

Using Eclipse as an application platform may not seem like a great idea until you examine its features in more detail. First, it’s built on Java. The application can potentially run on a wide ...