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Built on the robust Eclipse Theia platform, a popular choice among tool providers since 2017, Theia IDE provides an exceptional user experience designed to meet the needs of today’s developers.

When dealing with low-level code, the ability to inspect the state of memory as a program unfolds is a critical tool in a developer’s toolbox. To make that process as accessible as possible, we’ve been working at Ericsson to improve the capabilities of the Theia CPP Extension's cpp-debug-extension, and we are excited to make that work available to the open source community.

Since I last published a community update post in October, we’ve been busy in many areas focused on raising the profile of the Working Group and providing assistance to our projects. I would like to highlight a few notable updates.

Are you interested in creating an editor displaying data as a tree structure with a detail form in Eclipse Theia, such as the screenshot shown below? In this article we introduce the tree editor framework for Eclipse Theia, which supports exactly that.

As we see a rise in developer advocacy across the tech industry, the importance of developer experience rises with it. This has created a huge opportunity for design to make an impact. Eclipse Codewind met this challenge head on.

The Open VSX Registry is being transitioned to the Eclipse Foundation and as of December 9, 2020 will be managed under the Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools working group. 

This article compares Eclipse Che with VS Code online and VS Codespaces.

Do you wonder whether you should use VS Code or Eclipse Theia? Are you confused by the relationship between Theia and Eclipse Che? Do you want to know how Che compares to VS Code Codespaces? If so, this talk at EclipseCon by Jonas Helming of EclipseSource is for you.