As if I don't have enough going on my head for side projects, I've been playing with Perl 6 a lot recently. I'm really getting a craving to write a Perl 6 IDE -- something with the kind of integration that EPIC on Eclipse or ActiveState Komodo simply can't offer.
The thing that fries me about most of these IDEs is that Perl comes in last. Very little command completion, half braindead debugging systems, while other languages seem to work great. Some of it lies with Perl, as the TMTOWTDI makes writing an IDE really difficult. Maybe Perl 6 can really help with that.
Incidentally, despite my love affair with Komodo, I elected not to upgrade to 4.0. TextMate is serving my needs for now with system tools and Catalyst development, but I occasionally long for the debugger and RegEx Toolkit.
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