Eclipse Che vs. IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces vs. Shells vs. Eclipse Theia Comparison Chart

Eclipse Che makes Kubernetes development accessible for developer teams, providing one-click developer workspaces and eliminating local environment configuration for your entire team. Che brings your Kubernetes application into your development environment and provides an in-browser IDE, allowing you to code, build, test and run applications exactly as they run on production from any machine. Eclipse Che runs in containers. All of the developer tools, the IDE and its plugins are running as containerized services. You don’t have to worry about how to configure them, install their dependencies or keeping them alive - everything is packaged together in the container. Che allows you to establish a centralized configuration for your team’s development environment and technology stacks. Eclipse Che comes with a web-based IDE, based on Eclipse Theia which provides an in-browser VSCode experience complete with the latest tooling protocols.

Shells provides you with a 1-click, powerful virtual desktop environment, driven by a cloud computer, without leaving your browser! It's your personal workspace in the cloud. Shells are virtual desktop cloud computers. Access Shells with any web-enabled device. Shells gives you the cloud for your computer! Shells are Intel powered cloud computers that are always on, just like a desktop computer. Additionally, you’ll never miss anything with push notifications! The one-device-life has arrived! Run full desktop software, including but not limited to desktop grade browsers, desktop grade office applications, and even software development, music and media production applications and much more! Shells lets you run multiple apps at the same time and position them however you want. There are no rules or restrictions here! Run anything you want, anywhere you want, in any way you want!