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closedloop129 | 3 years ago

I still don't understand why Eclipse as an open source project couldn't adapt. Unlike emacs, which is written in elisp, Eclipse is written in Java, the language in which its users are fluent. Why do developers move instead of adapting their IDE?

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_old_dude_|3 years ago

Funding ! eclipse IDE is in majority maintained by IBM and IBM has decided to allocate less money to Eclipse.

closedloop129|3 years ago

That doesn't explain why the community didn't step up much much more and brought the development to new heights.

What is holding back Java developers from using their Java language to adapt the IDE written in Java that they daily use? If their boss told them to implement a feature, they would do that. But they don't implement the feature when they need it.