Eclipse: A Platform Becomes an Open-Source Woodstock

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Wolfe

  • Affiliations:
  • Science Writer

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Instant Messaging
  • Year:
  • 2003

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

Call it a platform. Call it a tool. Call it the hottest open-source softwaremovement since Linux. All those descriptions currently surround Eclipse,1 thelanguage-agnostic code base that’s billed as a “universal platform.”