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by laurentlb 32 days ago
I'm not sure about the dates. At some point (2014?), the use of IntelliJ was discouraged in favor of Eclipse. One year later or so, the decision was reversed and the effort focused on IntelliJ (and Eclipse were considered deprecated).
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jvolkman 32 days ago
IntelliJ was unsupported ("community supported") when I joined in the summer of 2015. I built a new protobuf editor plugin during that period as a side project, mostly for myself, which suddenly became used by thousands of Googlers when IntelliJ became the supported IDE again in ~2016?

I eventually handed it over to JetBrains and I think it ships by default with IntelliJ now.

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jeffbee 32 days ago
Was there never a detour via Eclipse Theia? I thought it might have had some traction internally, since Cloud Shell is based on it.
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DannyBee 32 days ago
Not on the developer side. The cloud side, yes, a bit.
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rcleveng 32 days ago
still on the cloud side, cloud workstations and also the cloud shell gui mode are all theia.

I never understood theia TBH

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