The first line of code of the technology actually known as Sirius was written 10 years ago.
The legend says that the first version was developed in a train, back from a meeting between Thales and Obeo that will result in a long-term partnership on graphical modeling.
One day later, a first metamodel, then named ViewPoint, was born:
In 2010, while a first version was already deployed on Thales projects, Sirius technology was publicly released for the first time under the name of Obeo Designer.
Several years later, in 2013, the decision was made with Thales to contribute this technology as an Open Source project in Eclipse.
Our main objective was to foster the adoption of this great component and make it the de-facto standard for graphical modeling in Eclipse. Since then, Sirius is part of the annual release train of the Eclipse platform and has gathered a vibrant community.
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