However, Wascana is more than just an easy way to get eclipse. My real objective is to build up a community focused on providing a top class open source desktop development solution. Essentially a competator to Visual C++ but as a common environment for Linux and Mac as well, i.e. all the same libraries and required tool chains and plug-ins. Adding new plug-ins to the solution is pretty trivial relative to building libraries and such. But I’d like to focus on the whole developer experience from end-to-end. And that is going to take a while to understand.

So while I hate to be competing with Phillipe’s great effort, I think we have slightly different objectives and focus.