Eclipse IMP

Eclipse IMP (formally SAFARI) is an IDE and framework for developing IDEs in Eclipse. Its sophisticated architecture supports not only basic editor concepts like outline and code colouring but also a high level of language analyses that enables refactorings and code completion. The project will released at the end of 2007 at Eclipse. The source is currently available at at sf.net.

Resources

• nice presentation about IMP
• Eclipse project proposal
• current home page @ sf.net

A sophisticated IDE framework is the way to go. Its the only way we can get a decent feature list with the development time we can effort. So since IMP sounds very promising to me, I think we should build the AS3 editor on this framework. And as soon we can provide the basic functionality for AS3 we can also adopt the AS2 editor -- mb0