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| <p><em>Expanded polyglot capabilities based on Language Server Protocol (LSP) plugins among major milestones in Eclipse Foundation’s thirteenth annual release train</em></p> |
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| <p>OTTAWA, June 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Eclipse Foundation, the platform for open collaboration and innovation, |
| today announced the Photon release of the Eclipse IDE. This marks the thirteenth annual simultaneous |
| release of Eclipse projects. There are 85 projects in the Eclipse Photon simultaneous release, |
| consisting of over 73 million lines of code, with contribution by 620 developers, 246 of |
| whom are Eclipse committers. As one of the world’s most popular desktop development |
| environments, the Eclipse IDE is downloaded over 2 million times per month, and is |
| the critical development environment for more than 4 million active users.</p> |
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| <p>The simultaneous release delivers native Eclipse IDE experiences for Rust and C# through Language Server based plugins. |
| The Language Server Protocol (LSP) ecosystem delivers editing support for popular and emerging programming languages. |
| Combined with the move to a quarterly rolling release cadence, the LSP focus demonstrates a commitment to |
| keeping pace with evolving developer and commercial needs.</p> |
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| <p>“With new language adoption happening at a faster rate, LSP based plugins will take the Eclipse IDE’s proven extensibility to the next level,” |
| said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. |
| “Congratulations to all of the committers, projects, and Foundation staff that made the Eclipse Photon simultaneous release possible.”</p> |
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| <p>Key Highlights of the Eclipse Photon Release:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Support for building, debugging, running and packaging Rust applications with full Eclipse IDE user experience.</li> |
| <li>C# editing and debug capabilities, including syntax coloring, autocomplete suggestions, code diagnostics, and code navigation tools.</li> |
| <li>Support for building Java™ 10 and Java EE™ 8 based applications out of the box.</li> |
| <li>Dark theme improvements in text colors, background color, popup dialogs, mark occurrences, and more.</li> |
| <li>For more information on the release’s features and projects, explore the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/photon/noteworthy/"></a>Eclipse IDE, Photon Edition New and Noteworthy</a> summary.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>To promote the Eclipse Photon release, the Eclipse Foundation has also produced an expert-led webinar series on projects |
| within the simultaneous release. |
| For more information please visit <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Virtual-Eclipse-Community-MeetUp/events/">https://www.meetup.com/Virtual-Eclipse-Community-MeetUp/events/</a>.</p> |
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| <p>The Eclipse Photon release is available for download today. More information and downloads are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/photon">http://www.eclipse.org/photon</a>.</p> |
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| <p><strong>About The Eclipse Foundation</strong><br/> |
| The Eclipse Foundation provides a global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable and |
| commercially-focused environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. |
| The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 350 |
| open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks for |
| a wide range of technology domains such as IoT, automotive, geospatial, |
| systems engineering and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit |
| organization supported by over 275 corporate members, including industry |
| leaders who value open source as a key enabler for business strategy. |
| To learn more, follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/EclipseFdn">Twitter @EclipseFdn</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/eclipse-foundation">LinkedIn</a> or visit <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/">eclipse.org</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Editorial Contact<br/> |
| Lonn Johnston<br/> |
| +1 650.219.7764<br/> |
| lonn@flak42.com</p> |