Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

The Eclipse IDE comes pre-packaged with a built-in version of the JDK, so it is not necessary to install Java beforehand. However, the 2023-12 version of Eclipse defaults to Java 17 compliance. To use ...