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Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-01-20 10:36 AM

interesting that you chose eclipse as an example of scale. prior to writing eclipse, OTI wrote VAJava and VASmalltalk which were both written in smalltalk... they scaled very well, and i believe that the OTI team had to be talked into doing the next one in Java.

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Posted by ceperez at 2008-01-20 11:43 AM

Yes the OTI folks with VAJava were the precursors of Eclipse. We can say the same about Taligent and ET++ too earlier projects that Eric Gamma was involved in. Lessons learned by those groups certainly contributed to Eclipse.

It is possible that the biggest ever dynamic language projects were in Smalltalk. Which sort of leads one to notice the correlation between good IDEs and success. Still, VAJava size was definitely smaller than Eclipse version 1.0. You'll have to try again for something of an order of magnitude bigger.

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