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by floatboth 2855 days ago
Well, it's a language created by an IDE company…
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vorg 2855 days ago
The dividing line between what's a language and what's the IDE is fairly arbitrary. E.g. a language could conceivably come with a tool chain that includes CLI-driven refactoring, and an "IDE" would only need to be a graphical interface calling it.
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opencl 2855 days ago
This is basically the idea behind the Language Server Protocol. The language toolchain provides a server and the IDE is a client.

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

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pvg 2855 days ago
The dividing line between what's a language and what's the IDE is fairly arbitrary

How do you figure? The language defines the runtime semantics in a way no IDE or refactoring tool does. It's a very bright line, unless you're conflating the distribution package of the language with the language itself.

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eloff 2855 days ago
Go is a language like that, with e.g. the gorename tool for refactoring.
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sigjuice 2855 days ago
A language and an IDE are completely separate things.
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rooam-dev 2855 days ago
Yeah. It used to be "choose IDE that supports your language", now it will be "choose a language that is supported by your IDE".
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giancarlostoro 2855 days ago
I mean it's sorta in the name "Integrated"
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