[Discuss] IDE for GNU Makefile auto-tools

[Rich Pieri]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:20:26 -0400
markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> That being said, I like word processors, spread sheets, cad programs,
> email, the web,  all the things that you do all the time. Why does
> software development need to be so different?

You're comparing apples and eggs. A word processor even one as big and
bloated as Microsoft Word does one thing: word processing. While it's
integrated with the rest of the Office Suite you're not going to be
crunching finance reports in Word; you would do that in Excel. For
example.

An IDE needs to do a lot of very different things in one place: edit
code (editor), check changes in and out of source management (version
control), compile code (compiler tool chain), run code, debug code
(debugger), etc. You're never going to find an IDE that does everything
well *and* does them all the way you want to do them unless you write
your own.

And I think that's why you love the idea of IDEs but hate actual IDEs.

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