[a_dev_musing]

Feels like I'm spamming every comment within this article, but this is exactly what Ensime is for. I hope that Vimside (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4298) up to date which addresses most of the above.

I don't think it would be too hard - mainly the server startup has been tweaked so you dont embed Ensime.

Neovim is also interesting, I understand they have a much nicer plugin architecture as well.