Eclipse Migration?

[trampas]

I use vanilla eclipse for embedded development and was considering switching to Theia. I was wondering if it was possible to migrate from Eclipse to Theia?

Specifically I have lots of older projects and ideally would like to open them in Theia and just have it work, including the build setup using .cproject files and debugging using segger Jlink. Such that Eclipse and Theia could coexist, ie build and change things and Theia and then next day build in Eclipse?

If it is not possible for coexistence is there a tool that will upgrade eclipse projects to Theia? Maybe convert the .cproject to cmake or other build setup?

Maybe I have this whole concept wrong and need to look at Theia different if so please help me understand the path from Eclipse to Theia.

[msujew]

Hey @trampas,

are you asking about the theia-ide project or the theia platform project (i.e. this repo)?

Maybe I have this whole concept wrong and need to look at Theia different if so please help me understand the path from Eclipse to Theia.

Theia as a project is first and foremost an IDE platform that is completely unrelated to the Eclipse IDE and serves a different user/adopter base. Both projects are under the Eclipse Foundation umbrella, but operate independent of one another. AFAIK Theia does not offer any migration from the Eclipse IDE platform out of the box. Think of the Theia IDE as an vendor neutral alternative to VS Code/VSCodium.

If you're someone who is interested in adding such capabilities to a Theia based IDE (i.e. not the Theia IDE), you can do so by using the Theia platform and building your own features on top of it. While this is quite the investment, other's have done similar things in the past (see for example the Arduino IDE).