Eclipse

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Eclipse is an open-architecture Integraged Development Environment (IDE) based on Java that runs on many platforms. It was originally developed in Java as a Java IDE, but since the architecture is open, other languages have been added.

It has been difficult to move modern developers who have learned on IDE's like Borland or Microsoft Visual Studio to a command-line toolchain like GNU. Eclipse is intended to fill this gap.

Eclipse supports many compilers, not just GNU. We have used the Intel compilers (icc, ...), and are investigating eclipse.

Photran is a project to use FORTRAN compilers with eclipse. It explicitly supports many fortran compilers, and works well enough on some unsupported compilers, since so many of them have adopted a g95-like interface.