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by jtwaleson·6y ago·view on hn ↗
I fully agree. The "I" in IDE (Integrated) has not aged well, just look at how many parts of the software development cycle are outside of the IDE. It's time to really integrate/bundle everything in a way that makes sense.

Things I want in my IDE:

- monitoring/alerting (how many times is this method executed, how long does it take, how many errors, etc)

- discussions as in Google Docs on code fragments, rather than "comments" that are part of the git history (comments are an orthogonal concern from checked in code)

- visual representation of my code base

- ultra fast automated test that cover only what I recently changed

- a documentation system that makes sense

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> The "I" in IDE (Integrated) has not aged well

This such a good observation. I will be using this quote in the future.

I've seen what integration of the development environment looks like inside a big company (Facebook) and it's just amazing how seamless everything can be when all your tools are built with an awareness of each other. I think we'll see that soon outside these big companies.