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Ask HN: Anyone Building Next Gen IDEs?

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I'm looking around, and one of my interests is the human-code interface. Is anyone building the next generation of IDEs - integrating AI for code generation, visual UIs for an overview of structure, etc?

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I will soon start working on a IDE / developer tool for a niche industry. I am actively looking for desktop gui frameworks to build performant desktop apps. There will be lot of trees and mind-map style diagrams with traced signals. So, I have currently ruled out Electron and looking at building a native tool as cross platform is not a priority.

I recently came across this excellent article comparing GUI frameworks [1]. It is definitely worth a read for anyone looking at building a serious desktop app.

I have put my particular requirement in a longer format here if anyone is curious and has some suggestions [2].

[1]: http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trai... [2]: https://pastebin.com/8SUpcgWJ

I've been working on an open source programming assistant[1]. We use ML to power two way code generation so you can use the tool throughout the lifetime of a project. Since it can read code as well as generate it there are a lot of cool things you can do like transforming one kind of code into another and keeping your backend/frontend in sync automatically.

We're part of the YC S18 batch. Happy to show you more

[1]: https://useoptic.com

This is something I'm also interested in, and have been thinking/working on collecting data for training AI for various features, like removing the need to lift your hands from the keyboard with "Type where you look" eye-tracking. And improving syntax, code clarity, comment improvement highlighting with code review data.

I wondered if you had a voice enabled VR what kind of design environment could be created.

I thought about what it would be like to say red ball and red ball appears then "bigger" or "3 feet wide" and it gets bigger.

"Iphone screen"

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