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At long last and after an herculean effort by our engineering team, we are proud to tell you that we have released the Curl CDE! The new Eclipse-based Curl IDE is really cool and for someone who is already familiar with Eclipse it will be a big step up. Our other Curl IDE, which is written entirely in Curl, will continue to be maintained for the foreseeable future but new capabilities and features will be added to the Curl CDE only. The Curl CDE is the future for our development community. It was chosen because the Eclipse platform is the platform used predominately by our customers and our customers want Curl to plug-in to that environment. We also benefit from the huge ecosystem surrounding Curl. We don't have to invent every new feature but can leverage existing Eclipse plug-ins. It's all good!

If you want to get started using the new Eclipsed-based Curl IDE (Curl CDE) you can download it from our web site now - this is the final release not a beta.
Download the Curl CDE

You should make sure before you download the Curl CDE that you follow the Installation Notes - there is a little bit of footwork required to get the plug-in working as is typical of Eclipse plug-ins.
Read the Installation Notes

If you have questions about how to use the Curl CDE there is documentation available directly from the CDE and you can also use the "Ask-the-Expert" forum. Remember: In the Curl forum there are no stupid questions and there are no stupid answers! Ask any Curl related question you want and it will be answered as quickly as possible.
Ask-the-Expert Forum

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Today we announced our membership in the Eclipse foundation. We also detailed our plans to base our developer tools on the Eclipse framework. You can read the details of our approach in a note I posted back in February. Our Eclipse based product will be called the Curl Development Tools for Eclipse or CDE and our exiting IDE will be become the Curl Classic IDE.

Out first CDE release which will be available in the summer will include all the functionality of the Curl Classic IDE, including the Curl language sensitive editor, debugger, search, deployment capabilities, Visual Layout Editor and much more. Future releases of the CDE will integrate the Curl Visual Layout Editor into the Eclipse framework as a Design Perspective, and substantially improve other programming productivity features such as error highlighting in the source-code editor, language sensitive navigation, refactoring and code assistance.