I've been using OpenLaszlo for about 6 months now, so I am certainly not an expert.  And I don't want to sound like a complainer.  But I must say, I am REALLY baffled at the lack of a full-featured IDE (or plugin) for OpenLaszlo.  I really like OL, and I want to develop with it.   But the lack of IDE support is really a drawback, compared to other current development environments .  And I have seen this sentiment mentioned frequently by others.   With the seemingly-strong community out there, I would expect a nice full-featured IDE available, sponsored by OL.  

I have tried most of the third-party available offerings, and don't get me wrong, they are certainly better than a text editor, and I greatly thank their contributors.  However they mostly seem 1) stalled in their development and/or not updated, and 2) only have basic features beyond common syntax highlighting.  What about project-wide "intellisense" type autocompletion support of Laszlo's mixed XML and _javascript_ code?  None of them have this, to my knowledge.  Am I missing something, perhaps?  I've searched and searched.   It would be hard to believe someone not having discussed this already. 

I think this is necessary to be competitive and gain traction, and would really be a big factor in attracting more developers into the community, thus benefiting everyone all around.  Is there some reason OpenLaszlo has not got behind such an effort?  Or maybe they are, but it has not come to fruition yet?   I certainly would like to have something to look forward to.  A current Eclipse plugin would be just awesome.  No need to re-invent a whole new IDE framework.  The available ones for Netbeans and Eclipse are good starts.  Couldn't they be updated and taken to fruition?

Thanks...

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