Serenji: IDE for M-technology

Evil tongues always say that Caché Studio , alas, does not reach the level of modern IDEs.
As an alternative development environment, I was recommended by Serenji
(in fact, developers have a variety of products related to M ).

Quote:

It is a tool for users of hundreds of developers around the world. With Serenji you can:

• Debug CSPs, Zen pages, Caché Direct services, terminal-based M apps, background jobs etc.
• Set watchpoints, conditional or deferred breakpoints, or break on error
• Step per-command or per-line
• View variables and interact with process directly
• Collapse code blocks to help you focus
• Edit M routines or InterSystems MACs, INCs and INTs

From the product advantages - Serenji integrates with anything from MSM and DSM to GT.M and antique versions of Caché (4.0+).
But on this, perhaps, dignity and ends.

Now about the shortcomings.

• The development environment of Serenji , as it turned out, is not fully
  since the code can be edited only during the debugging session.
• Although you can set a class method in the traditional view ## class (SomeClass) .SomeMethod (args) as a debugging target:
  

  USER> d DEBUG ^% Serenji ("## class (TestCase) .Main ()", "localhost", 4321)

  - but the environment itself does not support classes, so ultimately, the program (* .int), resulting from the compilation of the class , has to be debugged.
• Unlike Caché Studio , it costs extra money ( $ 415 for a single user license).
• Finally, just like Caché Studio , only for Windows.

Summary : for GT.M , due to the complete lack of in-house development tools, Serenji is definitely a breakthrough. And the breakthrough, which has been stagnant for many years.
But, if we are developing Caché code, then Caché Studio is our everything.
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And finally - a screenshot.
It’s better to see it once, than to spend two hours on the configuration beforehand: