Ask HN: If building an IDE from scratch, what features would you add?

2 points by rajasimon 1 year ago | 4 comments

Many IDEs feel bloated or outdated. If you could design one from scratch, what would you keep, drop, or reinvent?

SvenL 1 year ago |

Great debugging capabilities, time travel debugging, data break points, attach to running processes, remote debugging etc.

I think the most important feature for an IDE is debugging - at least this is the feature which separates an ide from just a Text Editor

joegibbs 1 year ago |

Native vector search would be great. I was just thinking today how irritating it is to try to find some specific component in a very large codebase without knowing exactly what it’s called already.

pancsta 1 year ago |

You mean like Zed? Check their roadmap.

T0V1 1 year ago |

I'd keep all the features from neovim, remove all the features from every other IDE.