Java, which Eclipse says has a developer base of 9 million, is much more widely used than languages such as C that are still common in the IoT world, said Chris Rommel, an analyst at VDC Research.

The current version of Eclipse is 2022-3. I downloaded and ran Eclipse Installer 2022-03 and used it to install the Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers, then I added the Java 18 plugin.

The Java IDE market is currently a four-way battlefield between Eclipse, IntelliJ, JetBrains‚ NetBeans, and Oracle JDeveloper. (Borland’s announcement that it is getting rid of JBuilder and ...