What I meant was to add an option to set the execute bit in emplode. That way, the default would be as usual. One way to accomplish that would be to add a "new executable" and "new other" to emplode.

I'm not sure I agree. I'd much rather see the programmers doing other more generally-useful stuff. Making a file executable under linux is as simple as the command line:

chmod +x [filename]

If you're doing development on/for the empeg, I can guarantee that you're spending at least 100x more time overall on writing code and compiling than you are at marking your files executable. :) I'm not convinced that taking the time to add an additional option to emploade so it would "chmod +x" for you is worth the effort.