[al2o3cr]

"Here's an IDE idea: create an industry standard plugin protocol. "

Just what we need - now there will be N+1 incompatible protocols!

(shamelessly stolen from xkcd)

[hornetblack]

I guess someone could make a platform for plugins then also provide a translation plugin for IntelliJ, Eclipse, Emacs, Vim, VS etc. So they can all use the same plugins.

[judk]

Eclipse can be used as a plugin in vim.