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History of Visual Development: Imagine There’s no IDEs It’s Difficult if You Try
- marssaxman 14y agoTraditional unix-style command line development hasn't gone away. As with most technological shifts, IDE market share has grown very quickly and has come to seem normal, but that doesn't mean the previous approach has stopped being useful. I would guess that in absolute terms there are as many people writing code sans IDE as ever. When you consider the growth in web services, and the fact that people coding in languages like Python and Ruby often just use plain text editors, it may well be the case that the popularity of IDEs has already peaked.