I would add: ...and being Eclipse they will have no marketing at all. Eclipse offers tons of interesting IDE's, languages ranging from C, Java, PHP, there used to be Haskell support as well. Granted, not every language has the same depth of features, and some plugins are practically abandoned. There are tools for the automotive industry, tools for building Dsl's and IDEs, hardware programming, the list goes on.
Eclipse is built as an IDE, but also as a platform to build your own IDE. I think that DBeaver is also based on Eclipse-the-platform.
But eclipse also reinforces memes, look at eclipse.org
- Software from the US: Great marketing, invasive, beginner friendly, attention to UX, great design, steals your data by default.
- Software from the EU: Deeply buried on a 2007 website, great feature depth, interface tailored to power users, designers have been killed, community equals you + 20 experts on some mailing list, no data sharing or only as opt-in
Eclipse is built as an IDE, but also as a platform to build your own IDE. I think that DBeaver is also based on Eclipse-the-platform.
But eclipse also reinforces memes, look at eclipse.org
- Software from the US: Great marketing, invasive, beginner friendly, attention to UX, great design, steals your data by default.
- Software from the EU: Deeply buried on a 2007 website, great feature depth, interface tailored to power users, designers have been killed, community equals you + 20 experts on some mailing list, no data sharing or only as opt-in
(they are just memes, with a pinch of truth)