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Isn't this Emacs? I love Emacs but it's not exactly an IDE out of the box--and it took me a while to figure out that it's pretty much a DIY IDE. The (relatively) recent addition of a built-in package manager goes a long way in making it easier to set up IDE-like functionality though.

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Not really, because Emacs is not hooked up to other languages, the extension part mostly come in elisp.

I was describing a "toolkit" like approach, not an extensible base. Think of it as a "set of libraries" vs a "framework".

Emacs makes what I describe difficult. You cannot change the editor. You cannot add a different GUI on top. You have to do most of the extension work in elisp, etc.

I would prefer a set of libs a Ruby guy can hook up with Ruby and extend, a Python guy with Python, etc. Not a one-size-plus-extensions-fits-all.

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