With JavaOne coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to remember that Eclipse is much more than just Java. I thought it might interesting to map the Eclipse support of popular computer languages. Based on this ranking of computer languages, it looks like 15 out of the 20 languages have Eclipse support.
- Java – I think it is pretty obvious
- C – Eclipse CDT
- C++ – Eclipse CDT
- PHP – PHPEclipse and the Eclipse PHP IDE project
- Visual Basic – I couldn’t find anything
- Perl – EPIC project
- C# – Product from Improve Technolologies
- Python – TruStudio
- Javascript – there seems to be many, including Web Tools Platform, MyEclipse
- Delphi/Kylix – I couldn’t find anything
- SAS – nothing; to be honest I have not heard of this language
- PL/SQL – seem to be lots of options including jsqleditor
- Visual Fox Pro – I am amazed people still use this
- Lisp/Scheme – Schemeway
- COBOL – Eclipse Cobol project
- Cold Fusion – cfeclipse
- VB .Net – nothing
- ADA – Aoinix ADT
- D – DDT
- Ruby – RDT and RadRails
We can also include Fortran, Flex, and I am sure many others. Feel free to leave a comment for any languages that I am missing.
UPDATE: One of the comments pointed at an EclipseCon presentation about different language support. If you are interested in more details I highly recommend looking at this presentation, especially the Excel spreadsheet that provides a summary of support for each language.
Prolog holds a special place in my heart:
http://roots.iai.uni-bonn.de/research/pdt/
Some time ago, a made a list of my favorite Eclipse plugins…
A few recommendations:
Pydev
Toby’s PL/SQL Editor
And, of course, …
… the complete list
Ask Ed Burnette about SAS…
And also
that presentation at EclipseCon 2006.
Smalltalk?
The EclipseCon presentation is there:
http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/attachment.cgi?id=250
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