hi all, noob at this. are code editors just notepad but with text highlighting, file opening, and interpreters which you use a terminal application to execute?
hi all, noob at this. are code editors just notepad but with text highlighting, file opening, and interpreters which you use a terminal application to execute?
IDEs visualise more data about the project you’re working on then just text editors. It might point out common errors/mistakes you’ve been doing on your code before executing it.
Text editors don’t have these features.
You’re also forgetting automated refactors, git integration, maven integration and a whole lotta stuff that IDEs facilitate
For sure, they do got integration up the wazoo!
Though in the past decade or so, the lines have been blurred between a “dumb” editor and a full-on IDE with the advent of LSP, DAP and the like.
The line between text editors and IDE can be blurry, neovim with plugins is a thing.