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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Goodbye, Eclipse!

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your numerous contributions, it was awesome to work with you, and it is really sad news for all projects you were involved in Eclipse. I wish you all the best in your new work area.

It is sad Eclipse is not as good as it could be to be widely accepted in Google - could you please give your personal opinion why it happened? If you are allowed to share this - which IDE will be used then in Google?

Regards,
Andrey

Am 26.04.2017 um 20:50 schrieb Stefan Xenos:
Eclipse usage within Google has dropped to the point where it no longer
makes sense to have a team of engineers contributing to the Eclipse
project. This means that in the next few months my team will be
dismantled and I will be reassigned to something else.


The good news is that this isn't happening right away. That leaves me
with some time to document my code and help train anyone who wishes to
take over the code I've been maintaining.


The biggest piece of unfinished work is the new JDT index I've been
working on for the past few years. I'm quite proud of it and I think it
will help us dramatically improve the performance of Eclipse. The plan
had always been for me to implement the index itself and then
demonstrate its usage by adopting it in the type hierarchy view. After
that I had hoped to recruit some help from the rest of the community.


The index reached that point several months ago and I've been working on
further improvements since then. However, it's clear now that I won't be
around to finish it. If the community at large still deems this to be a
worthy task, I'll need help from someone willing to take over the work.
I still have some time left and I'll make myself available to write
documentation and offer explanations. If you're interested, please get
in touch.


I'd like to keep my commit rights; I hope to continue writing the odd
bugfix if my new role permits me to do so.


I've really enjoyed my time working with the Eclipse community. You guys
are awesome. Keep in touch!


- Stefan



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Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov

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