Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

The Eclipse project has announced the Helios release train, a major update of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and many of its key components.

The Eclipse IDE, popular with Java developers, has displaced Microsoft’s Visual Studio as the most popular desktop IDE in the PyPL Top IDE index of September.

Eclipse Che Eclipse Che is an open source developer workspace server and cloud IDE designed for teams and organizations. Che version 7, currently in beta, uses Eclipse Theia as the basis of its IDE.