The original goal of Unix was to integrate a bunch of development tools into a convenient programming environment. Thus, sh, ed, cc, lint, grep, awk, make, sed, yacc, lex and adb all fit together using a teletype interface. According to the dog developer cutting and pasting with a mouse in a terminal emulator is almost as useful as a built-in paper tape punch and reader. I'm not so sure.Almost all coders editors can function as an IDE. Nothing says IDE should include GUI builder or debugger. I personally have never needed a debugger and declarative UI is the future. QT Creator is nice but slow as hell on my PC and I would not even dare try to run software like that on my RPI.not decrying, but just affirming that these editors are actually no IDEs
My opinion is the current graphical IDEs were mostly motivated by the way Windows and MacOS make it difficult to simultaneously work with multiple applications. In particular, click to focus along with focus raises to top makes each program on Windows function as an island. On the other hand, focus follows mouse along with good multitasking under traditional X allows a screen full of open windows to operate as a single integrated environment.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:39 pm