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Thanks again Jeff and Mike. I hope Progress will move forward with more investments in their OpenEdge tooling; hopefully one day it too will have built-in support for features like the ones you mentioned. Adding features like ABL compiler listings, faster project compilation, and source code (xref) analysis doesn't even seem that innovative to me. These are just the obvious next steps. It is odd that Progress is willing to spend enormous sums to purchase developer tooling for unrelated platforms (like $250 million on Telerik for .Net) but it invests comparatively little in its own OpenEdge. I really can't understand why Progress leaves such massive gaps in their own OpenEdge tooling. If Progress has any long-term plans for OpenEdge, it should really consider making some new acquisitions in that ecosystem as well. Otherwise it will appear that they are redirecting their new investments to platforms like .Net. This will only encourage Progress customers to do the same. (The recent "CDC" features in OE 11.7 makes it very apparent that Progress customers are now enabled and encouraged to migrate their data elsewhere, along with the related applications. I don't know how this serves the best interests of Progress, but it certainly doesn't do anything to help the average OpenEdge ABL developer with their day-to-day software development work.)
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