The "like"s you use in your examples make your point a tautology - "writing an IDE like Eclipse Idea or NetBeans" basically means "writing a big DE". There are

The "like"s you use in your examples make your point a tautology - "writing an IDE like Eclipse Idea or NetBeans" basically means "writing a big DE". There are other models for each of your examples that can reduce the size and complexity of the application (or at least spread it around).