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Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?

2 points by rajasimon 8 months ago · 5 comments · 1 min read


Many IDEs feel bloated or outdated. If you could design one from scratch, what would you keep, drop, or reinvent?

SvenL 8 months ago

Great 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

joegibbs 8 months ago

Native 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.

pancsta 8 months ago

You mean like Zed? Check their roadmap.

T0V1 8 months ago

I'd keep all the features from neovim, remove all the features from every other IDE.

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