Revision as of 20:31, 11 October 2011

EiffelStudio Integrated Development Environment

EiffelStudio IDE (more screenshots)

Welcome to the central resource for EiffelStudio developers and contributors.

News

• 25-26 June 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 Eiffel programming language. It is maintained and developed mostly by Eiffel Software and hosted at the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich link building service .

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.