Approaching Light Speed - News from the Eclipse Platform Project
summary
Eclipse Platform moves to a three‑month rolling release with Photon and 2018‑09 delivering concrete features: code mining (inline parameter names and blame info), a minimap view, an inline debug values plugin being prepared for platform integration, non‑blocking content assist, parallel Java project compilation, JUnit 5 test tagging and parallel runs, a UI throttler updating at ~100ms, startup and memory wins (example workspace: 1,600 projects, 60,000 classes builds in ~1.2–2 GB), and 20–30k + 15k lines of legacy SWT/GTK code removed.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:22Welcome
- 3:09Eclipse Java IDE
- 4:09Testing Framework
- 5:08Generic Editor
- 8:06User Interface
- 10:31Dark Theme
- 11:35Code Mining
- 18:40Community Participation
- 20:41New Release Cycle
- 22:27Cleanup
- 24:56Social
- 26:55Parallel Compilation
- 30:21Conclusion
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