This is a wrap up of what has happened in the Eclipse Platform Project from last years EclipseCon (Eclipse 2019-09) till EclipseCon 2020 and also current challenges the Eclipse Platform team is working on. The talk is complementary to other talks given at EclipseCon that focused on aspects like JDT, Java Support, Build, or Performance.
- Community & Adoption of the Eclipse Java IDE
- Code Cleanups
- Java 11
- Usabilty enhancements, e.g. Dark Theme
- Linux Support
- New Apple Hardware
- Current & Future Challenges
Karsten worked until mid 2022 as a Senior Software Engineer for Karakun GmbH and lives in Dortmund, Germany. He is a known expert in the Eclipse ecosystem, an active committer in multiple Eclipse projects (Xtext, Eclipse Platform, PDE, ...) and contributor to many more. Karsten shares his experience as speaker on conferences like EclipseCon, JavaLand, Devoxx, FOSDEM.