Second, I personally don't care if they open source the IDE and
frameworks as much as I care about having programming access to them
through APIs, like in other development tools.  Let me have an API to
add my own editing or programming tools to the IDE so I don't need
code to read and write project files.  Let me check and manipulate a
program's abstract syntax tree and symbol table through an API so I
don't have to write most of a REALbasic compiler and parse the
language reference or frameworks files just to create programming
tools.  The top IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio, IDEA) provide
these capabilities built-in, and the community has created a large
catalog of powerful programming IDE plugins (both free and
commercial) that has helped to increase the growth of the IDE's user
bases.

A REALBasic eclipse plugin would be interesting .

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Keith Hutchison
http://balance-infosystems.com http://realopen.org
http://www.kasamba.com/Keith-Hutchison
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