The term "IDE" tends to evoke images of highly unwieldy and inflexible mammoths like Eclipse and NetBeans.
Is Acme an IDE? Is Emacs an IDE? One has the plumber, the other has the buffer. They're both small abstractions that can be relentlessly scaled to greatly complex and intelligent workflows.
In contrast, I do not consider the standard IDE to be a great leap. They're actually quite static and the visualization tools they provide through graph structures are primitive for any real white-box analysis.
Is Acme an IDE? Is Emacs an IDE? One has the plumber, the other has the buffer. They're both small abstractions that can be relentlessly scaled to greatly complex and intelligent workflows.
In contrast, I do not consider the standard IDE to be a great leap. They're actually quite static and the visualization tools they provide through graph structures are primitive for any real white-box analysis.