Thank you for your feedback, it's really useful. I'll answer some of these, maybe Anton will pipe in as well. 1. There are benefits to having the platform and

Thank you for your feedback, it's really useful. I'll answer some of these, maybe Anton will pipe in as well. 1. There are benefits to having the platform and IDE tightly integrated such as it lowers the barrier to entry, allows for faster roll out of new features that require an interface between the two etc. Probably the biggest one is that it allows one to take social coding to the next level by showing not only how many followers a given package has, but also showing whether it passed unit tests, how many productions apps rely on it etc. 2. This is answered in a separate thread below. 5. Agree that the ak lib needs to split up into more modules and packages. 6. You can use any other database as a service offering you want (e.g. MongoHQ, IrisCouch etc.). There's a TCP socket class and a CommonJS compatible HttpClient module that you can use to talk to them: https://github.com/olegp/ak-httpclient https://github.com/olegp/ak-httpclient