Either some official support for the CE IDE or the inclusion of Project Studio Pro would be fine, quickfire solutions to this problem, IMO. [Edit] Actually, isn't project studio Windows only?
Precisely the problem: while I'm quite sure Project Studio and others are very nice IDEs, I don't believe there are ANY cross-platform IDEs out there other than CE IDE or the official one. And the official one for BlitzMax has to be cross-platform.
I also think there are plenty of other benefits to the "official" IDE being open to a select group of the BlitzMax community (i.e. like the CE IDE is).