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by jacquesm 3851 days ago
In the days of Turbo Pascal even the editor was part of the whole. Compiler, build system, editor all tied together as a single executable. Package management wasn't on the horizon yet for that environment so it wasn't included. But there is definitely a precedent for this and this kind of convergence is hardly a new thing.

Personally I don't like it much. I prefer my tools to be separate and composable.