Comment by seanmcdirmid

We language designers must increasingly consider the entire programming experience: the libraries, the editor, the debugger, even the more social aspects of the community. The language itself is a tool, and throwing all your effort into syntax and semantics without regards for how the editor or debugger will work is ridiculous. And in fact, I'm a strong believer in the holistic approach where the IDE is actually a part of the language (very smalltalky).