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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rhencke on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#15369358)
There very may well be other reasons, but a large one is that Eclipse is written using SWT, not AWT/Swing.

SWT is Java, and has a platform-independent API, but has platform-specific implementations. (SWT JARs are unique per OS/architecture)

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