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pcblues • today at 10:54 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Eclipse was an ide that needed a supercomputer to run on an early version of Java when it first came out.

It was interesting, but sluggish.

Jetbrains took advantage of it for profit and eventually adobe'd the business model, although granted they made a lot of improvements for various languages.

I have no pity for companies who made money off open source and lose it the same way. But this looks like a fight between fighters past their prime.