Thread by @maxandersen

So 56% was wrong. All of these uses eclipse JDT in some way to provide their Java support.

You might not like the UX of Eclipse IDE but your other IDE wouldn’t work without it’s continued existence.

https://twitter.com/maxandersen/status/1394422347403304961

And before someone says so - yes IntelliJ does not *require* eclipse JDT but have you tried enabling it as intellijs compiler ? Speed is much better; you can get error messages for the whole project and you can run code without having everything compile. It’s liberating :)

Che, gitpod, GitHub workspaces all web based IDES which behind the scene uses the Java language server developed by @rhdevelopers teams which uses @EclipseJavaIDE JDT “headless”

And emacs, vim and other traditional text editors Java support - have Java support through the same language server.

And fun fact - vscode not only uses eclipse JDT through the Java language server - big parts of the core development team Behind vscode is from the original Eclipse platform and JDT team.

In short - if you want Java development tools to improve the most - help make Eclipse JDT better!