What is Mylyn?
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The Myelin substance accelerates our
thoughts by making neurons much more efficient at conducting electricity. The Mylyn name
is a tribute to this substance, as many users claim that our tools increase efficiency
to the point where we can code at the speed of thought.
The preferred pronunciation is 'mIl&n, similar to the pronunciation of "myelin". The
project was previously called Mylar.
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The goal of the Mylyn project is to evolve a Task-Focused user interface
for the Eclipse platform. At the core of Mylyn is a mechanism
that that makes our interaction with a system explicit.
Existing tools make the structure of the system explicit,
and as a result overload us with irrelevant
information when the size of a system dwarfs
what we need to know to complete a task.
