Wasn't obvious to me :) In that case, I would generally agree, and I'm not sure why that isn't the standard model (since I can't think of many IDE frontend features that don't reduce to some pretty generalizable concepts, while I can think of lots of IDE backend features that are very unique to the language in question).
(I see above that people are arguing that this doesn't solve the issue of visual integration, but I don't see why separation of concerns in this way would make it harder to write a language-specific IDE--can anyone point to any examples?)
(I see above that people are arguing that this doesn't solve the issue of visual integration, but I don't see why separation of concerns in this way would make it harder to write a language-specific IDE--can anyone point to any examples?)