Lets first look at what is an IDE or Integrated Development Environment.
In the good old days, coding used to be a text-only affair, with a lot more left to do after the coding itself, before you get to actually make the application you built, run on your machine. Over time these activities started to get baked into coding environments. As an example, in Windows, you could code a java program in a text file with a .java extension. Then you would have to create a class file by compiling the .java file with java compiler or javac.exe. Once you have the class file ready, you are good to go and run the application you built with an additional step.
You would have to run the class file using the java interpreter(java.exe). Now java came into existence when there were popular integrated development environments (going forward will mention as IDE) for programming languages like C, C even Pascal and BASIC. The example was taken for highlighting the activities that are involved after the coding process.
This series of activities to get an application running seemed to be something that could be automated or executed on the click of a few buttons, which spurred on the development of software programs that are used to develop other software programs.
So basically IDE or Integrated Development Environment is a software that provides you with a conducive environment for coding in a given programming language, checking for syntactical errors in the program, compile the code, build an executable file from the code, suggest enhancements and make adequate changes for an efficient run on the machine and finally run the code, all with the help of a few buttons pushes. Well, IDE’s do a lot more than that, like feeding in the environment settings, and the library settings for the programming language or SDK among a host of other functions.
IDE’s have come a long way since the days of text-based coding and text screen based IDEs. So what features do the current generation of IDEs pack together into their software bundle? Let’s take a look at each one of the features one would love to have in an IDE, in today’s cutting edge tech scenario.
There are a lot of popular IDEs in the market today, some of the most popular ones being IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, RStudio, WebStorm, PyCharm among others.
That was a lengthy description about an IDE, but lets take this one more step closer to cutting edge, IDE on Cloud.
Cloud IDEs are integrated development environments based in the cloud.
Research suggests, active collaboration in development helps deliver better quality software than otherwise. Collaborative activities like pair programming, code review, stand ups.
Some advantages of IDEs on cloud over the standalone ones are,
A few popular IDEs on cloud are Cloud9 IDE, Eclipse Che, Paiza Cloud Cloud IDE among other great options.
In conclusion, IDEs on cloud provide for a light weight development infrastructure allowing you to stay focused on development activities leaving the rest for the cloud to handle efficiently.
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