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When you say PSDOE feels like dark ages compared to IntelliJ it is because you like IntelliJ better than Eclipse or just feel like the PSDOE implementation could be better? > • Is there any demand in the Progress community for an IDE based on IntelliJ? I wouldn’t say so, we did tried something like that with Zamolxis albeit our aim was to build a development environment that can work on Linux/OSX… as with anything most of Progress community is happy with whatever Progress put on the table, not easy to get them to taste anything else not approved by PSC (kudos to PSC for that). > Are there any licensing issues I should take into account? Would Progress even allow me to create a new IDE? You would probably need the runtime for the build process but I wouldn’t even attempt to bundle any Progress license, just let the users specify the DLC location and don’t bother about licenses. Will Progress allow you to create a new IDE? No idea if they can actually stop you but if this is not using anything from PSDOE, aka it will just replace the PSDOE all together, then they will definitively see it as competition and then it’s probably up to you if you want to ‘fight’ them 
> Are there other developers that would like to contribute to this project? Depends how do you want to implement the language (DSL), if you think using the xtext approach can be an option we might be able to help with the language syntax, if you want to go with MPS then we probably won’t be able to help much. >> I do realize this will be a huge amount of work to create a new IDE for Progress Development, but I'm sure that it will pay off on the long run. Are you talking about an open source project aren’t you? How do you think this will ‘pay off’, even on the long run? Good luck, as Patrick said… if you feel up for the task just go ahead and have a go at it, just try to manage your expectations. Regards, Marian Marian Edu Acorn IT www.acorn-it.com www.akera.io +40 740 036 212
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> Are there other developers that would like to contribute to this project? Depends how do you want to implement the language (DSL), if you think using the xtext approach can be an option we might be able to help with the language syntax, if you want to go with MPS then we probably won’t be able to help much. >> I do realize this will be a huge amount of work to create a new IDE for Progress Development, but I'm sure that it will pay off on the long run. Are you talking about an open source project aren’t you? How do you think this will ‘pay off’, even on the long run? Good luck, as Patrick said… if you feel up for the task just go ahead and have a go at it, just try to manage your expectations. Regards, Marian Marian Edu Acorn IT www.acorn-it.com www.akera.io +40 740 036 212Continue reading...