The easiest way to see Theia in action is to try products such gitpod.io, or Red Hat Code Ready Workspaces, or ARM’s mbed Studio.Įclipse Theia is built, distributed, and used under the Eclipse Public License, a commercial-friendly open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative. Arduino) who wants to provide their adopters with a modern developer experience can build from. ARM, D-Wave, Gitpod, Google, Red Hat) or community (e.g. Theia 1.0 is intended as a production-ready platform that any company (e.g. There isn’t even a developer tool download available from the Theia project. The first thing to understand is that, at least for this release, Theia is not intended to be a tool that developers download and use directly. Microsoft explains it well in their VS Code FAQ: “…it is more accurate to say that Visual Studio Code is “built” on open source, rather than “is” open source…” This is the primary reason Theia adopted many of the VS Code user experience features.īut, VS Code is not truly open source. I want to emphasize that VS Code is a great product that is loved by many developers. Here are some clarifications I hope will help people understand the differences between the two and the value of Theia. After we announced the release of Eclipse Theia 1.0 and published a blog about it, we received a number of questions about the differences between Theia and Visual Studio (VS) Code and why we’re calling Theia “a true open source alternative” to VS Code.
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