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And Eclipse Foundation maintains VSCode-compatible editor designed to be a framework for other IDEs: https://theia-ide.org/

IMO sounds like natural foundation for Cursor

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Oh my god, this comment gave me flashbacks to when I was writing android apps in Eclipse + ADT
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shudders does anyone pine for eclipes?

I haven't used it in a decade, Im sure it has has evolved

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My job replaced eclipse with VSCode for Java+Spring development.

Can’t say I miss eclipse, but a lot of the VSCode extensions seems to utilize old legacy eclipse stuff and has the bugs to match.

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Did you consider IntelliJ, even just the community edition?

If not you really should. IntelliJ with Java is one of the best dev experiences I've ever had. I'm a VSCode fan for most other things but for Java I wouldn't even remotely consider using it over IntelliJ if I had the option :-)

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It's still horrendous.
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