Ask HN: Which language and framework would you use to build a modern IDE?

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Do exactly what Matlab does with that live code thing. Actually do exactly what Matlab does for everything. I love that you can right click on any code and get help with examples and everything was written in human understandable language and not some programmer who was forced to write a help doc. Showing what variables are what is good too.

I'm not a programmer and I thoroughly enjoyed using Matlab as a sort of scripting language to do things on my computer. Yeah it's Overkill but it was just so easy. Also the built in functions for image compare are great

Am programmer, and used matlab in the distant past. My opinion is the exact opposite of yours.

In fact, I would argue that being proficient in matlab creates a greater _barrier_ to being proficient in other language than helping.

I'd look at the most popular editors like Atom, or visual studio code. Go from there..

It might be a depressing conclusion but it is hard to make the case for building gui applications in anything other than US and that is because I have tried the alternatives.

Is US a typo? What language or framework are you referring to?

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