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

2 pointsby rajasimon14 days ago
Many IDEs feel bloated or outdated. If you could design one from scratch, what would you keep, drop, or reinvent?

4 comments

SvenL14 days ago
Great debugging capabilities, time travel debugging, data break points, attach to running processes, remote debugging etc.<p>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
joegibbs14 days 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.
pancsta14 days ago
You mean like Zed? Check their roadmap.
T0V114 days ago
I&#x27;d keep all the features from neovim, remove all the features from every other IDE.