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by trenchpilgrim 241 days ago
My line is - if I can compile, run and debug my program through the editor UI instead of a terminal, it's an IDE.
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Sublime Text can run code from its UI too. IDE is much more full-featured, like VS vs VSCode or IntelliJ vs Fleet.
As I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.
Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?
It has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history.

Try to use Zed to debug Go code.

I'm literally doing that right now. I can set breakpoints and graphically step through them in Go files.