<s>
An	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
IDE	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
software	B-Application
application	I-Application
that	O
provides	O
comprehensive	O
facilities	O
to	O
computer	B-Application
programmers	I-Application
for	O
software	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
IDE	O
normally	O
consists	O
of	O
at	O
least	O
a	O
source	B-Application
code	I-Application
editor	I-Application
,	O
build	B-Application
automation	I-Application
tools	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
debugger	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
IDEs	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
NetBeans	B-Application
and	O
Eclipse	B-Application
,	O
contain	O
the	O
necessary	O
compiler	B-Language
,	O
interpreter	B-Application
,	O
or	O
both	O
;	O
others	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
SharpDevelop	B-Language
and	O
Lazarus	B-Language
,	O
do	O
not	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
boundary	O
between	O
an	O
IDE	O
and	O
other	O
parts	O
of	O
the	O
broader	O
software	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
is	O
not	O
well-defined	O
;	O
sometimes	O
a	O
version	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
system	I-Architecture
or	O
various	O
tools	O
to	O
simplify	O
the	O
construction	O
of	O
a	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
(	O
GUI	B-Application
)	O
are	O
integrated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
modern	O
IDEs	O
also	O
have	O
a	O
class	B-Application
browser	I-Application
,	O
an	O
object	B-Application
browser	I-Application
,	O
and	O
a	O
class	O
hierarchy	O
diagram	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
object-oriented	B-Language
software	I-Language
development	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environments	I-Application
are	O
designed	O
to	O
maximize	O
programmer	B-Application
productivity	O
by	O
providing	O
tight-knit	O
components	O
with	O
similar	O
user	B-Application
interfaces	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
program	O
typically	O
provides	O
many	O
features	O
for	O
authoring	O
,	O
modifying	O
,	O
compiling	B-Language
,	O
deploying	O
and	O
debugging	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
contrasts	O
with	O
software	O
development	O
using	O
unrelated	O
tools	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
vi	B-Application
,	O
GDB	B-Language
,	O
GCC	B-Application
,	O
or	O
make	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Reducing	O
setup	O
time	O
can	O
increase	O
developer	B-Application
productivity	O
,	O
especially	O
in	O
cases	O
where	O
learning	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
IDE	O
is	O
faster	O
than	O
manually	O
integrating	O
and	O
learning	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
individual	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
code	O
can	O
be	O
continuously	O
parsed	O
while	O
it	O
is	O
being	O
edited	O
,	O
providing	O
instant	O
feedback	O
when	O
syntax	O
errors	O
are	O
introduced	O
,	O
thus	O
allowing	O
developers	B-Application
to	O
debug	O
code	O
much	O
faster	O
and	O
more	O
easily	O
with	O
an	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
most	O
modern	O
IDEs	O
are	O
graphical	O
,	O
text-based	O
IDEs	O
such	O
as	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
were	O
in	O
popular	O
use	O
before	O
the	O
availability	O
of	O
windowing	O
systems	O
like	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
and	O
the	O
X	B-Operating_System
Window	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
(	O
X11	B-Operating_System
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IDEs	O
initially	O
became	O
possible	O
when	O
developing	O
via	O
a	O
console	B-Device
or	O
terminal	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Early	O
systems	O
could	O
not	O
support	O
one	O
,	O
since	O
programs	O
were	O
prepared	O
using	O
flowcharts	O
,	O
entering	O
programs	O
with	O
punched	B-Architecture
cards	I-Architecture
(	O
or	O
paper	O
tape	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
before	O
submitting	O
them	O
to	O
a	O
compiler	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dartmouth	B-Language
BASIC	I-Language
was	O
the	O
first	O
language	O
to	O
be	O
created	O
with	O
an	O
IDE	O
(	O
and	O
was	O
also	O
the	O
first	O
to	O
be	O
designed	O
for	O
use	O
while	O
sitting	O
in	O
front	O
of	O
a	O
console	B-Device
or	O
terminal	B-General_Concept
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
IDE	O
(	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Dartmouth	B-Operating_System
Time	I-Operating_System
Sharing	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
)	O
was	O
command-based	O
,	O
and	O
therefore	O
did	O
not	O
look	O
much	O
like	O
the	O
menu-driven	O
,	O
graphical	O
IDEs	O
popular	O
after	O
the	O
advent	O
of	O
the	O
Graphical	B-Application
User	I-Application
Interface	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
it	O
integrated	O
editing	O
,	O
file	O
management	O
,	O
compilation	B-Language
,	O
debugging	O
and	O
execution	O
in	O
a	O
manner	O
consistent	O
with	O
a	O
modern	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Maestro	B-Application
I	I-Application
is	O
a	O
product	O
from	O
Softlab	O
Munich	O
and	O
was	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
first	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
for	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Maestro	B-Application
I	I-Application
was	O
installed	O
for	O
22,000	O
programmers	B-Application
worldwide	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Today	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
last	O
Maestro	B-Application
I	I-Application
can	O
be	O
found	O
in	O
the	O
Museum	O
of	O
Information	O
Technology	O
at	O
Arlington	O
in	O
Texas	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
IDEs	O
with	O
a	O
plug-in	B-Application
concept	O
was	O
Softbench	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1995	O
Computerwoche	O
commented	O
that	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
an	O
IDE	O
was	O
not	O
well	O
received	O
by	O
developers	B-Application
since	O
it	O
would	O
fence	O
in	O
their	O
creativity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
January	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
three	O
IDEs	O
whose	O
download	O
pages	O
are	O
most	O
commonly	O
searched	O
for	O
are	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
,	O
Eclipse	B-Application
and	O
Android	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Modern	O
IDEs	O
even	O
have	O
intelligent	B-Application
code	I-Application
completion	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
IDE	O
is	O
expected	O
to	O
provide	O
integrated	O
version	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
,	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
source	O
repositories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IDEs	O
are	O
also	O
used	O
for	O
debugging	O
,	O
using	O
an	O
integrated	O
debugger	B-Application
,	O
with	O
support	O
for	O
setting	O
breakpoints	O
in	O
the	O
editor	O
,	O
visual	O
rendering	O
of	O
steps	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IDEs	O
can	O
use	O
different	O
kinds	O
of	O
user	B-Application
interface	I-Application
for	O
code	O
search	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
form-based	O
widgets	O
and	O
natural-language	O
based	O
interfaces	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visual	B-Language
programming	I-Language
is	O
a	O
usage	O
scenario	O
in	O
which	O
an	O
IDE	O
is	O
generally	O
required	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visual	O
Basic	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
create	O
new	O
applications	O
by	O
moving	O
programming	O
,	O
building	O
blocks	O
,	O
or	O
code	O
nodes	O
to	O
create	O
flowcharts	O
or	O
structure	B-Language
diagrams	I-Language
that	O
are	O
then	O
compiled	B-Language
or	O
interpreted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
flowcharts	O
often	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
interface	O
has	O
been	O
popularized	O
with	O
the	O
Lego	B-Application
Mindstorms	I-Application
system	O
and	O
is	O
being	O
actively	O
perused	O
by	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
companies	O
wishing	O
to	O
capitalize	O
on	O
the	O
power	O
of	O
custom	O
browsers	B-Application
like	O
those	O
found	O
at	O
Mozilla	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
KTechlab	B-Language
supports	O
flowcode	O
and	O
is	O
a	O
popular	O
open-source	O
IDE	O
and	O
Simulator	O
for	O
developing	O
software	O
for	O
microcontrollers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visual	B-Language
programming	I-Language
is	O
also	O
responsible	O
for	O
the	O
power	O
of	O
distributed	B-Architecture
programming	I-Architecture
(	O
cf	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LabVIEW	B-Application
and	O
EICASLAB	B-Application
software	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
early	O
visual	B-Language
programming	I-Language
system	I-Language
,	O
Max	B-Application
,	O
was	O
modeled	O
after	O
analog	O
synthesizer	O
design	O
and	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
to	O
develop	O
real-time	O
music	O
performance	O
software	O
since	O
the	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
early	O
example	O
was	O
Prograph	B-Language
,	O
a	O
dataflow-based	O
system	O
originally	O
developed	O
for	O
the	O
Macintosh	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
graphical	B-Language
programming	I-Language
environment	O
"	O
Grape	O
"	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
program	O
qfix	O
robot	O
kits	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
IDEs	O
support	O
multiple	O
languages	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
GNU	B-Application
Emacs	I-Application
based	O
on	O
C	B-Language
and	O
Emacs	B-Operating_System
Lisp	I-Operating_System
;	O
IntelliJ	B-Language
IDEA	I-Language
,	O
Eclipse	B-Application
,	O
MyEclipse	B-Language
or	O
NetBeans	B-Application
,	O
based	O
on	O
Java	B-Language
;	O
MonoDevelop	B-Language
,	O
based	O
on	O
C#	B-Application
;	O
or	O
PlayCode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Support	O
for	O
alternative	O
languages	O
is	O
often	O
provided	O
by	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
allowing	O
them	O
to	O
be	O
installed	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
IDE	O
at	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
Flycheck	O
is	O
a	O
modern	O
on-the-fly	O
syntax	O
checking	O
extension	O
for	O
GNU	B-Application
Emacs	I-Application
24	O
with	O
support	O
for	O
39	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Eclipse	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Netbeans	B-Application
have	O
plugins	B-Application
for	O
C/C	O
++	O
,	O
Ada	B-Language
,	O
GNAT	B-Language
(	O
for	O
example	O
AdaGIDE	O
)	O
,	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
and	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
which	O
are	O
selected	O
between	O
automatically	O
based	O
on	O
file	O
extension	O
,	O
environment	O
or	O
project	O
settings	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unix	B-Application
programmers	B-Application
can	O
combine	O
command-line	B-Application
POSIX	O
tools	O
into	O
a	O
complete	O
development	O
environment	O
,	O
capable	O
of	O
developing	O
large	O
programs	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
kernel	I-Operating_System
and	O
its	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
sense	O
,	O
the	O
entire	O
Unix	B-Application
system	I-Application
functions	O
as	O
an	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
free	O
software	O
GNU	B-Operating_System
tools	O
(	O
GNU	B-Application
Compiler	I-Application
Collection	I-Application
(	O
GCC	B-Application
)	O
,	O
GNU	B-Language
Debugger	I-Language
(	O
GDB	B-Language
)	O
,	O
and	O
GNU	B-Operating_System
make	B-Application
)	O
are	O
available	O
on	O
many	O
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
Windows	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
or	O
Vim	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-Application
Display	I-Application
Debugger	I-Application
is	O
intended	O
to	O
be	O
an	O
advanced	O
graphical	O
front-end	O
for	O
many	O
text-based	O
debugger	B-Application
standard	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
programmers	B-Application
prefer	O
managing	O
makefiles	O
and	O
their	O
derivatives	O
to	O
the	O
similar	O
code	O
building	O
tools	O
included	O
in	O
a	O
full	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
most	O
contributors	O
to	O
the	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
database	O
use	O
make	B-Application
and	O
GDB	B-Language
directly	O
to	O
develop	O
new	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Even	O
when	O
building	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
for	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
using	O
Visual	B-Application
C++	I-Application
,	O
Perl	B-Language
scripts	O
are	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
replacement	O
for	O
make	B-Application
rather	O
than	O
relying	O
on	O
any	O
IDE	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
IDEs	O
such	O
as	O
Geany	B-Language
attempt	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
graphical	O
front	O
end	O
to	O
traditional	O
build	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
various	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
platforms	O
,	O
command-line	B-Application
tools	I-Application
for	O
development	O
are	O
seldom	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
major	O
compiler	B-Language
vendors	O
for	O
Windows	O
still	O
provide	O
free	O
copies	O
of	O
their	O
command-line	B-Application
tools	I-Application
,	O
including	O
Microsoft	O
(	O
Visual	B-Application
C++	I-Application
,	O
Platform	B-Application
SDK	I-Application
,	O
.NET	B-Application
Framework	I-Application
SDK	I-Application
,	O
nmake	O
utility	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IDEs	O
have	O
always	O
been	O
popular	O
on	O
the	O
Apple	O
Macintosh	B-Device
's	O
classic	B-Application
Mac	I-Application
OS	I-Application
and	O
macOS	B-Application
,	O
dating	O
back	O
to	O
Macintosh	B-Operating_System
Programmer	I-Operating_System
's	I-Operating_System
Workshop	I-Operating_System
,	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
,	O
THINK	O
Pascal	O
and	O
THINK	B-Operating_System
C	I-Operating_System
environments	O
of	O
the	O
mid-1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Currently	O
macOS	B-Application
programmers	B-Application
can	O
choose	O
between	O
native	O
IDEs	O
like	O
Xcode	B-Operating_System
and	O
open-source	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
Eclipse	B-Application
and	O
Netbeans	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ActiveState	B-Language
Komodo	I-Language
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
multilanguage	O
IDE	O
supported	O
on	O
macOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
features	O
of	O
IDEs	O
can	O
benefit	O
from	O
advances	O
in	O
AI	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
web	B-Application
integrated	I-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
Web	O
IDE	O
)	O
,	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
an	O
Online	B-Application
IDE	I-Application
like	O
Goom.ai	O
or	O
Cloud	B-Application
IDE	I-Application
,	O
is	O
a	O
browser	B-Application
based	O
IDE	O
that	O
allows	O
for	O
software	O
development	O
or	O
web	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
web	O
IDE	O
can	O
be	O
accessed	O
from	O
a	O
web	B-Application
browser	I-Application
allowing	O
for	O
a	O
portable	O
work	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
