Earlier this month, Mozilla’s Developer Tools Lab released its first project, Bespin. Bespin proposes an open extensible Web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

There has been much excitement around the project, particularly in the developer community and technology press. As Ryan Paul from Ars Technica states, “The creative way that Bespin uses the canvas element demonstrates the power of open Web standards and the creative things that other developers are doing with Bespin validates the usefulness of the project.”

The project is already acting as a catalyst for innovation in the open source community. Alex Handy from the SD Times reports, “One open-source developer has already tied Bespin to a headless Eclipse server. This IDE mashup provided Bespin as the editor, while the Eclipse engine crunched and examined the code dynamically on the back end.”

Highlights of coverage include:

US:

Ars Technica, CNET, Internet News, Lifehacker, eWeek, SD Times

UK:

TechWorld, ZDNetUK, ComputerWorld UK, The Register

Germany:

Chip, PC-Welt, silicon.de, ORF, t3n, magnus.de, Heise