Re: [e4-dev] Sandbox for Eclipse proposal as E4 sub-project

[Carsten Reckord <reckord@xxxxxxxx>]

> Are you not trying to make an elephant (Eclipse) behave as a gazelle
> (Notepad++)?

I have two replies to that: 

As far as the shippable product is concerned, we actually do hope that there's a (maybe slightly chubby) gazelle hiding in the elephant's shadow, which only needs to be lured out.

And on a more serious note, this is meant as an experiment to see how far Eclipse can be pushed into the direction of these leaner tools, where there are gaps or roadblocks to be solved, and also where the limits are for that. Using Notepad++, Atom, vs.code and the like as a compass, and rethinking an Eclipse solution from the ground up step by step seemed like the best way for us to do this, instead of going through everything the full-fledged IDE brings and trying to sort that out.