A slightly different emphasis for MPS - tell me if I am off base

Hello,

    I have been an intellij, resharper, and profiler user since the turn of the century. I am interested in MPS because it is generally a cool idea. I have a copy of the Intentional Programming book that I have reread over the last couple of years and I hope someday that we realize the potential of the "software factory" approach.

I have an application in mind for MPS that may be divergent from your intended use of the product. Please give me some feedback about this. I am not a developer who came from the power editor tradition of programming - I am not very good with vi, emacs, slickedit. That is why I am so dependent on your products.

This can be a hinderance, however, when trying to adopt a new language that has either very poor tool support or is only supported in tools like emacs. There are some books on programming that extoll laziness as a virtue in programmers, but my laziness is so profound that I cannot imagine learning emacs at my age.

An example of a language like this is Ocaml. I really like this language, but I also want to be able to develop in an environment like intellij. Given a grammar that describes the syntax of Ocaml, and perhaps some kind of description of the type system using your type language (which I don't know anything about), could I use MPS to create an IDE-like environment for Ocaml?

There is a post earlier asking about the direction of MPS and you guys responded that you are still looking for ways to integrate MPS into the jetbrains development world. I would think that creating a development framework that allowed you to mass-produce little IDEs for all the cool languages out there would be an excellent application.