A lot of developers prefer to work inside a graphical application that contains or orchestrates all the development tools, instead of using terminal command lines. Such graphical applications are usually named Development Environments—or DEs for short.
At present, the most popular IDEs are probably the following ones:
- Eclipse: This is used mainly for development in the Java language.
- Visual Studio: This is used mainly for development in the C# and Visual Basic languages.
- Visual Studio Code: This is used mainly for development in the JavaScript language.
In the 20th century, it was typical to create an IDE from scratch for a single programming language. That was a major task, though. Therefore, in the last decades, it has become more typical to create customizable IDEs, and then to add extensions (or plugins) to support specific programming languages. For most programming languages, there is at least one mature extension for a popular IDE. However...
