Recently picked up that an "IDE" is a largely uncustomized, out-of-the-box experience, and that (Neovimmers) call the result of their customizations a "PDE", a "Personal Development Environment" instead.
Made me wonder:
Is the notion that IDE's are what they are, mostly unchangable, a common one?
@ctietze I don't think people are saying that IDEs are "unchangeable", but there's a difference between a) changing a few (or many) settings and installing some third-party plugins, and b) being able (and, to some degree, expected) to write scripts, i.e. program, your editor to do basically anything.
@ctietze I’m not sure if that’s an accurate way to describe IDEs. Xcode, perhaps, but while Visual Studio is no Emacs, it allows you to configure the UI elements, the colourscheme, the key bindings, set up custom commands, install plugins, etc. I don’t know how common it is to use all these features (I, for one, have barely scratched the surface), but there’s a lot in there.
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