Difference between Eclipse Europa, Helios, Galileo

Question

What is the difference between versions of Eclipse (Europa, Helios, Galileo)? Which is the best for desktop application?

Answer 1

They are successive, improved versions of the same product. Anyone noticed how the names of the last three and the next release are in alphabetical order (Galileo, Helios, Indigo, Juno)? This is probably how they will go in the future, in the same way that Ubuntu release codenames increase alphabetically (note Indigo is not a moon of Jupiter!).