Doug Schaefer

Eclipse has emerged as the platform that finally integrates development tools from multiple vendors into a common, extensible, and widely supported framework. The Eclipse CDT development environment brings this rich offering of integrated tools to the world of C and C++ programming, enabling C/C++ developers to improve their productivity and enhance the quality of the software they produce. The CDT project began in the summer of 2002 with source code donated by QNX Software Systems. Since then, developers from a number of organizations have contributed to the CDT, helping it evolve into a mature commercial-quality development environment. This diverse participation, which lets the CDT address the needs of a wide audience of developers, brings together the best minds in the C/C++ IDE industry. In the summer of 2005, the CDT project team released CDT 3.1, which offers... (more)