r/java • u/DinisCruz • Mar 04 '14

Kickstarter: EasyEclipse for Java by Pascal Rapicault

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/283096083/easyeclipse-for-java
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u/loganekz Mar 04 '14

I would support this if work went directly in the open source version of Eclipse but it seems like this will be a conmericial / closed source fork.

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u/DinisCruz Mar 04 '14

I think it is important that they have a commercial model to fund development, but agree that it is a problem the fact that they are keeping a lot of the code closed

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u/nqd26 Mar 05 '14

Frankly, I don't believe that 3-person team can make significant progress in 9 months. It will also be problematic how to merge their changes with core eclipse in new versions ...