April 9th, 2008
Curl joins Eclipse foundation, moves development to Eclipse plugins
Curl announced yesterday that they’re joining the Eclipse foundation and that they’ll be releasing a series of Eclipse plugins to support Curl development while phasing out the current tools. It’s a great move for Curl and a win for Eclipse which continues to expand its reach in the developer community and especially the rich Internet application community.
The new version of the development environment will include all of the current IDE functionality but will be all hooked into Eclipse. This is going to lower the barrier to entry to Curl development because the Curl toolset will now be available for any developer to plug into their current development environment. That’s the beauty of Eclipse - so many developers are using it for so many different things and the plug and play architecture means any developer can quickly and easily try something new. Curl’s technology has always been quality but developer adoption, especially with a new language, can be tough. This should speed developer adoption for Curl.
You can get more information about Curl and their progress with Eclipse over on their developer center.
Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst, recently joined Adobe's Platform Team as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist. full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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