TheiaCon 2024

Join us as we explore the latest advancements and initiatives within the Theia project and its broader ecosystem. This talk highlights the newly introduced features, including remote container support, the Theia IDE, and open collaboration enhancements. We'll share insights on current developments, such as "Theia AI," and discuss the future roadmap. Don’t miss this chance to get up to speed on recent efforts and to glimpse what lies ahead for the Theia project. Whether you're an existing contributor, a potential adopter, or simply curious about Theia's future, this talk will help you stay in tune with the ecosystem's progress.

Texas Instruments' Code Composer Studio (CCS) has long been the go-to development environment for embedded systems engineers working with TI’s microcontrollers and processors. In this session, we will explore the latest version of CCS, which is now built on the open-source Theia platform. This transition enables TI to offer an enhanced user experience, maintaining the familiar tools and workflows by adopting modern web technologies that can be run on the cloud and on the desktop.

Join us as we showcase how CCS Theia integrates essential development tools like: C/C++ compilers, a multi-core debugging environment, and a project management system, enabling us to provide a cutting edge yet familiar environment for embedded developers.

As AI integration becomes standard in modern IDEs, domain-specific tools often lag behind due to the complexity of implementing advanced AI features. However, Theia AI changes this by simplifying the process, unlocking immense potential for AI-enhanced domain-specific tools.

Theia AI, an AI integration framework shipped as part of Eclipse Theia, takes care of the recurring challenges like LLM communication, interactive chat models, prompt configuration, function calling, and context augmentation, allowing developers to focus on domain-specific functionality with full control over their AI integration.

In this talk, we’ll showcase how Theia AI empowers developers to build AI-enhanced tools, from selecting the right LLM for a task, designing multi-turn prompt flows, to making the AI responses interactive and actionable with tool-specific buttons. Through hands-on demos and code examples, we’ll demonstrate AI integration in custom tools and editors, including diagram editors with Eclipse GLSP, and share best practices we’ve learned from diverse customer projects. Discover how Theia AI streamlines AI integration and frees you from vendor lock-ins.

In this lightning talk, we introduce Sokatoa, an innovative tool for GPU profiling, analysis, and debugging workflows for Android, built on the Theia platform.

We will demonstrate Sokatoa in action, showcasing its custom navigation system, custom views, flexible tab management, and how it seamlessly integrates components like Perfetto or Theia’s code editor. The talk will highlight how the extensibility of Theia allowed us to efficiently implement our usability concept. Further we show how we easily extended the platform with backend plugins to meet the specific needs of our project.

This talk introduces an approach to embedded development: running the GNU Debugger (GDB) directly in the browser using WebAssembly, eliminating the need for traditional installations.

Attendees will discover how this solution can be integrated by leveraging the Eclipse CDT Cloud Project targeting popular web based IDE, Eclipse Theia. By using WebAssembly, we can run GDB directly in the browser, providing a seamless debugging environment across different systems.

In addition, the talk will cover the exciting capabilities of modern browsers to connect to hardware using WebUSB. This allows developers to interface with embedded devices directly from the browser, further simplifying the development and debugging process.

Join us to explore the future of zero-install embedded C/C++ development and see firsthand how these technologies can revolutionize your development experience.

Join us as we explore the current state and future of the Theia Cloud project, a key contributor to the broader Theia ecosystem. This talk will highlight how Theia Cloud integrates with and enhances the Theia framework, offering cloud-native solutions for hosting IDEs and development tools. We will also discuss the contributions made by Theia Cloud to address critical challenges in cloud-based hosting, from security and monitoring to updates and workflow automation. As we approach the release of Theia Cloud 1.0, this presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the project’s trajectory, detailing what the upcoming release brings and how contributors can get involved. Whether you're interested in the technical details of running IDEs in the cloud or looking for ways to participate in an open-source community, this session is designed for you.