Version 3.5 of the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment application has officially been released.
What is Eclipse? A free open-source software development platform you can install on mac, win or linux.
What does it run? Eclipse was originally written to support Java, but now it has language packs for over a dozen languages.
What is Galileo? For several years now the Eclipse Foundation, an organization of open source Eclipse developers, have released a new iterative version of Eclipse late June of each year. Galileo, code name for the latest Eclipse version, officially dropped a couple of days ago. It's version 3.5 of the venerable platform.
What do you use Eclipse for? Currently, I code Actionscript in Eclipse using the Flex SDK plug in. It streamlines all the complexities of developing RIAs, and it also incorporates Subversion, an open-source version control app.
What's next? Now that Galileo is officially released, is it worth upgrading to? Turns out, lots of applications are not ready to support it yet. I've found several blogs documenting attempted upgrades in Linux, Windows and OSX that ended in grief, and not just regarding the Flex Builder plug-in. Be sure to research compatibility before getting too deep into a new version of Eclipse.
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