The primary rationale for using an IDE is that it gathers all your tools in the same place, and you can use them in concert with roughly the same user interface paradigm, and without having to exert too much effort to make separate applications cooperate. The reason this becomes especially desirable with GUI applications is because it’s very difficult to make windowed applications speak a common language or work well with each other; aside from cutting and pasting text, they don’t share a common interface.
This makes me wonder -- could one create something like the GUI equivalent of UNIX's modular philosophy? Desktop systems like OLE and KDE's kparts don't seem to have accomplished that goal. What about Web Intents?
This makes me wonder -- could one create something like the GUI equivalent of UNIX's modular philosophy? Desktop systems like OLE and KDE's kparts don't seem to have accomplished that goal. What about Web Intents?