Supporting the adoption of new languages is hard because developers expect to have IDE support. The Polyglot IDE addresses this issue by providing an extensible IDE integrated with the Polyglot compiler framework. With the Polyglot IDE, you can extend Java with new language features, such as domain-specific extensions, and obtain an IDE for your new language.

The Polyglot IDE is an Eclipse plug-in that behaves similar to the Java IDE implemented by Eclipse's JDT. It can be installed easily through Eclipse. Polyglot extension developers can readily extend the Polyglot IDE to support their own language.

Implemented features include code editing and highlighting, compilation, and integrated error reporting. There is some code-navigation support, and an extensible project-creation wizard.

Some features remain unimplemented, but desirable, such as debugging support, full navigation, and refactoring support. We hope to generate interest in the user community for adding these features.