Total Eclipse of Gen - possibly ?

Listening to the latest EDGE webcast, one of the things that will be in R8 of Gen is a move toward an Eclipse-based IDE.

It would be great if we could get into the Eclipse-based development community (see this post) and open Gen up to the world.

It seems that there is a DEFINITE move to the Eclipse-based toolset - the new Diagram Trace Facility is Eclipse-based, so the whole Gen toolset will eventually be Eclipse based.

Could it look like this ? (click to get a better view!)

This is a mock-up by me, but maybe the shape of things to come. For a while, the Gen iterface has looked dated, and this could be the update it needs. In addition, the podcast talks about a potential re-architecting of the toolset - what more could this mean ? Could it be the start of a new life for the tool ? Hopefully CA are begining to invest more time and effort in it, and push it toward becoming the tool of choice. It has it all - a code repository, multi-database and platform support, mixed platform support - need I go on ?