I would like to provide codeready studio as an alternate editor for CRW workspaces. This way developers can have CRW workspaces (devfiles) for projects that are supported by studio but now very often modified and get their development environment up and running in minutes. There is already an Eclipse IDE on upstream Che that is based on broadwayd.
We also need to emit activity to Che server so that Che does not idle the workspace assuming inactivity on the editor.