Thanks! I've been suffering for analysis-paralysis trying to pick an environment for a current project --- hopefully this will get me actually working....
If you have occasion to try Literate Programming, or have any interest in the concept, I'd be glad to hear of it.
Also, if you want to use winforms for your painting app, you can have a look at the image editor of the IDE - https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker/blob/maste... It only has a few tools now, but i think it's a great base to start