[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Building an IDE (that doesn't suck)

[Thomas Lockney]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Paul Stoffregen <paul at pjrc.com> wrote:
> What features are essential, important, nice-but-not-necessary, or just
> extra fluff?
>
> How can I make it easy to learn for beginners, yet also usable for
> experienced users?

The very first question you should be asking is: who are the target
users going to be? Start from there and move forward. If you ask a
bunch of developers what a perfect IDE looks like, you'll get a very,
very different answer from asking a similar question of a bunch of
artists (the question will necessarily be different since the users
likely don't even know what an IDE is nor why they should want to use
one).

~thomas