Many IDEs feel bloated or outdated. If you could design one from scratch,
what would you keep, drop, or reinvent?
Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?
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Re: Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?
#2I'd keep all the features from neovim, remove all the features from every other IDE.
Re: Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?
#3Native vector search would be great. I was just thinking today how irritating it is to try to find some specific component in a very large codebase without knowing exactly what it’s called already.
Re: Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?
#4Great debugging capabilities, time travel debugging, data break points, attach to running processes, remote debugging etc.
I think the most important feature for an IDE is debugging - at least this is the feature which separates an ide from just a Text Editor
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Re: Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?
#6You mean like Zed? Check their roadmap.