[throwaway8291]

I've used Eclipse on and off and always found it to be a bit clunky. Unhelpful error messages coming from the fifty layers of abstraction you did not know about before.

Back in the days, I always preferred netbeans - it was just more of a product, less of an exercise in object-oriented abstractionism.

Today, I am a happy user of vim (and vscode, if I need to) - I left behind the heaps of design patterns, thankfully. What this feels like to me is a trying to jump on a train, that's long gone.

[lecunn]

I don't understand your comment. What does the IDE Eclipse have to do with Eclipse Theia?

[gowld]

People don't understand that one project can have more than one product.

[Shywim]

The same confusion exists between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Also, Eclipse Theia could be the name of the last version of the Eclipse Java IDE since they named every major release of their IDE until recently.

Maybe they should have gone with Theia by Eclipse, or just drop the Eclipse in the name altogether.