Eclipse IDE vs Eric
Eclipse IDE
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| Figure | Eclipse IDE | Eric |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · IDE Software | 8.9 (#5) | 8.4 (#12) |
| Spec score · Integrated Development Environments | 8.8 (#7) | 8.3 (#15) |
| Installation | The Eclipse Installer is a self-extracting installer, while package and ZIP downloads remain available. | Eric can be installed through PyPI or from a distribution archive, and the site recommends installing it in a Python virtual environment. |
| License | Eclipse IDE is free and released under the Eclipse Public License 2.0, which includes royalty-free copyright and patent grants. | The official site displays a GPLv3 logo for Eric. |
| Operating systems | The Eclipse Installer is offered for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with listed architecture variants including x86_64 and AArch64 and Linux riscv64. | The installation instructions cover Linux, macOS, and Windows; Windows users are directed to download the ZIP archive. |
| Support | The site points users to community chat, issue reporting, documentation, and the Eclipse IDE Working Group mailing list for help. | The maker provides user questions and answers, an issue tracker link, and a mailing list link. |
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Eclipse IDE
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Eric
Eric is a Python editor and IDE based on Qt and Scintilla, intended for quick edits as well as project management. Its current stable version, eric7, is based on PyQt6, Qt6 and Python 3. Editing tools include syntax highlighting, autocompletion, calltips, source folding, brace matching, error highlighting and project-wide search and replace. For development, it includes a Python debugger with multi-thread and multiprocessing support, profiling, code coverage, code checking, task management and unittest support. Core plugins provide interfaces for Mercurial, Subversion and Git repositories, and users can load further extensions from its Plugin Repository. Python tools include pip and virtual environment management and an interactive shell; rope refactoring is available as an optional plugin. Eric also lists chat and a shared editor as cooperation functions. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and can be installed through PyPI or a distribution archive. The maker recommends installation in a Python virtual environment, and directs Windows users to a ZIP archive. It is free, with no price or usage limits stated.