{"id":93,"date":"2007-01-03T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-01-03T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:58:48","slug":"is-eclipse-adoption-peaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/93-is-eclipse-adoption-peaking.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Eclipse adoption peaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise and rise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipse<\/a>, the open-source tools platform, is now an old and familiar story. It&#8217;s possible though that Eclipse adoption is nearing its peak. I&#8217;ve just received issue 43 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipsesource.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EclipseSource<\/a> newsletter, which includes the results of BZMedia&#8217;s November 2006 survey. Here are some snippets that interested me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The survey is in its third year, and shows Eclipse Enterprise adoption at 54% in 2004, 62% in 2005 and now 67% (the survey says &#8220;two thirds&#8221;). Still growing, but a flattening curve.<\/li>\n<li>The single most popular feature of Eclipse is its low cost (cited by 65% of respondents)<\/li>\n<li>By far the primary use of Eclipse is for Java development (more than 70%), despite its support for other languages. In terms of languages, the next most used is&nbsp;SQL at 25% and C++ at 24% (of course these stats overlap).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although Eclipse clearly still dominates Java development, I&#8217;ve picked up some dissatisfaction among developers I&#8217;ve talked to at conferences. Some of the complaints are the variable quality of Eclipse plug-ins, difficulty in managing plug-in dependencies especially across a team, and the view that Eclipse is less productive than favourites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\" target=\"_blank\">IntelliJ IDEA<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I also note that &#8220;free&#8221; is not such an unique feature these days, and that the Sun-sponsored&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netbeans.org\" target=\"_blank\">NetBeans<\/a> is winning praise for advances in its Java tools.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t misunderstand me; Eclipse is not under threat. But I would not be surprised to see further levelling off of its adoption curve, or even a small decline in the next year or two.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4c8b4e54-4ad5-404c-a3b4-3366081aaf8a\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/eclipse\" rel=\"tag\">eclipse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/netbeans\" rel=\"tag\">netbeans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/java\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sun\" rel=\"tag\">sun<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise and rise of Eclipse, the open-source tools platform, is now an old and familiar story. It&#8217;s possible though that Eclipse adoption is nearing its peak. I&#8217;ve just received issue 43 of the EclipseSource newsletter, which includes the results of BZMedia&#8217;s November 2006 survey. Here are some snippets that interested me: The survey is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/93-is-eclipse-adoption-peaking.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Eclipse adoption peaking?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}