Timeline for What justifies the use of an IDE versus a standard editor?
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| Aug 31, 2012 at 18:54 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by mike30 | ||
| May 13, 2011 at 9:44 | comment | added | user1249 | @Frank, depends on what you want them to do and how easy that is. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 12:09 | comment | added | Frank Shearar | IDEs don't have to be resource hungry. But Smalltalk's probably an edge case: reflection's easy, very simple syntax, and so on. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 0:34 | comment | added | Dominique McDonnell | Yeah, but my 8Gb i7 dev machine needs to do something while I'm typing away. :D | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 21:47 | comment | added | user1249 | Note that all this understanding requires memory to store. Hence IDE's tend to be pretty resource hungry as compared to a "fit-on-a-floppy" editor. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 19:57 | history | answered | user1249 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |