>Eclipse still a major ide It might be related with some Eclipse configuration. I would be strange if editing of Gradle scripts were unsupported in Eclipse.
>IDEA is not free for everyone IDEA Community is free, and it supports Gradle just fine: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/ I think IDEA community covers almost all the cases that are needed for Apache JMeter development. On top of that, IDEA has free license offer for qualifying OpenSource projects: https://www.jetbrains.com/community/opensource/ Of course there are limitations (e.g. "Licenses are provided only to core team developers"), however you definitely qualify, thus you can have an ultimate license. PS. I don't expect build code to be changed/updated often, so it does not sound like a showstopper issue. Vladimir
