Are you looking for something similar to Steve Yegge's Grok Project[1]? He's currently trying to bring toolchain parity across all languages and clients. It's

Are you looking for something similar to Steve Yegge's Grok Project[1]? He's currently trying to bring toolchain parity across all languages and clients. It's a little more ambitious goal than what you're describing, but it does benefit from the fact that it's already being funded (Google is paying Steve's salary). As for paying for what you've described, I would have to have a very good assurance that something would come of my donation. My initial reaction is "sure, I'd love better tools behind emacs," followed closely by "if it's an easy or interesting problem though, why haven't I already seen it?" [1] http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html