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EiffelStudio is an advanced commercial-grade IDE for the Eiffel programming language. It is maintained and developed mostly by Eiffel Software and hosted at the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich.

EiffelStudio is a full-featured IDE offering the following features, many of them unique:

* Complete compiler for the Eiffel programming language, with Design By Contract (DBC) support and both high compile-time speed and high-performance executables, based on the Melting Ice Technology.
* Full portability (including graphics) across Windows, MacOS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris and other operating systems
* Smart code editor
* Sophisticated multi-view browsing and viewing facilities
* Interactive debugger
* Graphical modeling tool for UML and BON with full roundtrip
* Refactoring support
* GUI development tool (EiffelBuild) and fully portable GUI library (EiffelVision)
* Many other libraries of reusable component.

The Eiffel compiler creates C code that is then handed to a standard C compiler. As a result, Eiffel programs have a run-time performance comparable to those directly written in C or C++, but with the benefits of an advanced object-oriented model and strong typing. EiffelStudio uses a highly efficient compacting garbage collector to free the developer from the burden of memory management.