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by jayflux 1281 days ago
Nice round up

Something I think would be useful would be to stop trying to distinguish any meaning between “text/code editor” and “IDE”. Those 2 distinctions don’t really work today because modern editors have pretty much everything an IDE would have.

It’s an anachronism from a time when text editors really did very little but edit text, most of the modern ones today have debuggers, intellisense, syntax highlighting, code lenses and plugins as standard.

Language servers also changed the architecture even more by moving the heavy lifting somewhere else and being able to plug back into any UI.

It’s much more of a blurred line today.

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On the other hand, I'd like very much for this distinction to continue, so I could continue steering clear of the IDEs :)