Don't be skeptical - check the popularity and numbers of developers involved with the tools on Codeplex like VFPX, VFPCharts (GDI+),activevfp, and FoxyPreviewer. It all works remarkably well, not a kludge at all (more FUD!)..
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>I'm more skeptical about the Foxpro part. Fox will never (AFAIK) be capable of non-GDI graphics, integrate with the OS in a way that is more than a kludge, or seriously improve what is an extremely dated IDE. And, more to the point, whatever combination of "improvements" one puts together under those circumstances will have a "developer community" of about 10 people, no support, and no one with any kind of financial incentive to develop new tools or improvements to make that model sustainable. Can't see how that makes development more fun, but maybe that's just me. I got so tired of working in an increasingly marginalized niche product for so many years that it is fun to be playing with toys a *lot* of people use and improve. (as I am sure that is part of the attraction of working in Java, perl or php )