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My line is - if I can compile, run and debug my program through the editor UI instead of a terminal, it's an IDE.


Sublime Text can run code from its UI too. IDE is much more full-featured, like VS vs VSCode or IntelliJ vs Fleet.


As I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.


Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?


It has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history.

Try to use Zed to debug Go code.


I'm literally doing that right now. I can set breakpoints and graphically step through them in Go files.





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