After seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor.

The Eclipse project has announced the Helios release train, a major update of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and many of its key components.

Microsoft integrates Visual Studio with open-source Eclipse IDE The most popular integrated development environments, Eclipse and Visual Studio, are coming together.

Want VS Code's functionality without Microsoft? Eclipse's Theia IDE project offers an alternative.