Re:Dangling by a Trivial Feature
by winter_blue on Monday December 24, 2012 @12:01PM
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> To date, they've almost all failed.
Eclipse is an example of an immensely successful plug-in architecture-based software.
It's amazing how well plug-in ecosystem in Eclipse operates. For instance, I could install the PyDev plug-in and have an intelligent Python editor -- but at the same time the EGit plug-in provides seamless git integration that works with any language!
How all these plug-ins come together and play nice with each other to create a cohesive and powerful IDE is impressive!
Eclipse is an example of an immensely successful plug-in architecture-based software.
It's amazing how well plug-in ecosystem in Eclipse operates. For instance, I could install the PyDev plug-in and have an intelligent Python editor -- but at the same time the EGit plug-in provides seamless git integration that works with any language!
How all these plug-ins come together and play nice with each other to create a cohesive and powerful IDE is impressive!