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Who cares about AI’s embedded in IDEs? Here’s the tooling I need * text editor with intellisense * build system * visual debugger * CLI coding agent It’s tota

Who cares about AI’s embedded in IDEs? Here’s the tooling I need * text editor with intellisense * build system * visual debugger * CLI coding agent It’s totally fine if those four things are different. In fact I actually probably prefer them to be different. Having an all-in-one IDE is a complete and total non-goal. People have historically confused the first three as needing to be a single IDE. This has always been wrong. The number of people who think you can’t debug with Visual Studio if the exe wasn’t built from a .sln is shocking. They’re all independent!

9dev 9mo ago
Why would you ever want a debugger that isn't integrated with the code editor..? I will never not want to debug code when the current breakpoint and evaluated expressions aren't visible in the code itself. I mean, look at debugging in IntelliJ: https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2025.3/hotswap-popup_dark.png https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2025.3/hotswap... As opposed to the terminal: https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698043355289/8c2d427d-b584-4411-8870-d5551c0f7de5.png https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v16980433...
- forrestthewoods 9mo ago
  False dichotomy. Terminal debugging is garbage. The GUI you use for writing code doesn’t have to be the same GUI you use for debugging code. RemedyBG: https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg RadDbg: https://x.com/rfleury/status/1747756219404779845?s=46 https://x.com/rfleury/status/1747756219404779845?s=46 I mostly edit code in VSCode. I mostly debug code in VisualStudio. They don’t have to be the same. I do concede that one tool to rule them all is appealing. But ultimately I work with many different languages so it’s kind of a multi-tool world no matter how you slice it.

9dev 9mo ago

Why would you ever want a debugger that isn't integrated with the code editor..? I will never not want to debug code when the current breakpoint and evaluated expressions aren't visible in the code itself. I mean, look at debugging in IntelliJ: https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2025.3/hotswap-popup_dark.png https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2025.3/hotswap... As opposed to the terminal: https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698043355289/8c2d427d-b584-4411-8870-d5551c0f7de5.png https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v16980433...

forrestthewoods 9mo ago
False dichotomy. Terminal debugging is garbage. The GUI you use for writing code doesn’t have to be the same GUI you use for debugging code. RemedyBG: https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg RadDbg: https://x.com/rfleury/status/1747756219404779845?s=46 https://x.com/rfleury/status/1747756219404779845?s=46 I mostly edit code in VSCode. I mostly debug code in VisualStudio. They don’t have to be the same. I do concede that one tool to rule them all is appealing. But ultimately I work with many different languages so it’s kind of a multi-tool world no matter how you slice it.