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<h1 class="firstHeading">EiffelStudio Integrated Development Environment</h1>

[[Image:EiffelStudioScreenshot.png|thumb|250px|right|EiffelStudio IDE ([http://eiffel.com/products/studio/screenshots.html more screenshots]) ]]

Welcome to the central resource for EiffelStudio developers and contributors.
==News==
*''25-26 June 2011'': [[Eiffel_Design_Feast_2011 | The Eiffel Design Feast in Zurich]].
*''6 June 2011'': EiffelStudio 6.8 is available for download at http://www.eiffel.com/downloads
*''15 December 2010'': EiffelStudio 6.7 is available for download at http://www.eiffel.com/downloads

==Background==

EiffelStudio is an advanced commercial-grade IDE for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_programming_language Eiffel programming language]. It is maintained and developed mostly by [http://www.eiffel.com Eiffel Software] and hosted at the [http://se.inf.ethz.ch/ Chair of Software Engineering] at [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich] [http://www.diamondlinks.net link building service]
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On April 5th, 2006, Eiffel Software relicensed the EiffelStudio product under the [[Gnu Public License]]. Eiffel Software still offers a commercial variant. Both versions share the same source code.

EiffelStudio is a full-featured IDE offering the following features, many of them unique:

* Complete compiler for the Eiffel programming language, with Design By Contract (DBC) support and both high compile-time speed and high-performance executables, based on the Melting Ice Technology.
* Full portability (including graphics) across Windows, MacOS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris and other operating systems
* Smart code editor
* Sophisticated multi-view browsing and viewing facilities
* Interactive debugger
* Graphical modeling tool for UML and BON with full roundtrip
* Refactoring support
* GUI development tool (EiffelBuild) and fully portable GUI library (EiffelVision)
* Many other libraries of reusable component.

The Eiffel compiler creates C code that is then handed to a standard C compiler. As a result, Eiffel programs have a run-time performance comparable to those directly written in C or C++, but with the benefits of an advanced object-oriented model and strong typing. EiffelStudio uses a highly efficient compacting garbage collector to free the developer from the burden of memory management.

<center>If you want to know more about the unique features of Eiffel and EiffelStudio, check out our [[Reasons for using Eiffel]] page.</center>

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== Getting Started ==

* [[Downloads]]
* [[EiffelStudio 6.8 Releases|Changelog of 6.8 (release branch)]]
* [http://docs.eiffel.com/book/eiffelstudio/software-installation-eiffelstudio Installing EiffelStudio]
* [[Compiling Hello World]]
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== Working with EiffelStudio ==

* [[Frequently Asked Questions]]
* [[Eiffel Glossary]]
* [[Eiffel Compilation Explained]]
* [[EiffelStudio Wish List]]

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== Contributing! ==

* [[:Category:Projects|How to contribute: the Projects page]]
* [[:Category:Testing|EiffelStudio testing process: you can participate!]]
* [[EiffelStudio 7.0 Releases|Changelog of latest development version, currently 7.0 (development trunk)]]
* [[Repository|Getting the source: Subversion repository]]
* [[Compiling EiffelStudio]]
* [[:Category:Tools|Developer's tools]]
* [[Language_Roadmap|Language roadmap]]
* [[Environment_Roadmap|Environment roadmap]]
* [[Design_and_coding_rules|Design and coding rules]]
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== Community ==

* [http://www.eiffelroom.org EiffelRoom]
* [[Spread_the_word|Spread the word]]
* [[Eiffel Sites and Links]]
* [[Mailing Lists]]
* [[:Category:News|News]]
* Join us on IRC at chat.freenode.net #eiffelstudio or through http://community.eiffel.com/irc

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