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Steve Yegge at Google is/was involved in a project called 'Grok' which sounds pretty similar to that. I really hope it catches on also.

http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJs-0EInW8

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Thanks! I knew I had read something that was along these lines and that was it. I've been thinking about this problem for years. Perhaps it's time I worked on it myself.

Turning up blanks here trying to find any kind of project site for it, looks to be internal for now.

I've long wanted to see something like an Eclipse daemon offering tool support to external editors etc. Ensime [1] does something along these lines, getting Scala' compiler functionality into Emacs using the Swank protocol from Slime [2].

[1]https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime

[2]http://aemoncannon.github.io/ensime/#tth_sEcC

Something like eclim? http://eclim.org/

Wow, thanks! A headless Eclipse 'server' and command protocol! I can't believe I've not come across that project before.

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