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Comment by ZenoArrow | Hacker News Reader

I understand the frustration of the author of this list, but do still believe there's room for improvement in the field of IDEs. Light Table is the most promising new IDE that I know of, do think it has a decent chance of bringing benefits to coding, partly because it seems to focus on the one important area that I still feel lacks any real polish in many current IDEs, which is in debugging.

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I got the impression that the author wasn't frustrated, but rather mocking the common responses new IDEs like Light Table or Atom inevitably get.

EDIT: To reiterate what leoc posted below, the format this is presented in is a well-used "meme" in the tech world.

Perhaps, but there are plenty of barely original or language-specific IDEs out there, so it's fairly possible the author was being direct.

I think the humour of the original spam-solution form https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt was always meant to be double-edged, and it was usually taken as such.

Can't it be both?

The great thing about this list (and the original programming language one that I stole from, of course) is that it mocks itself.

It is true that almost all IDEs are doomed to fail and the reasons why are easily listed. But it is also true that the critics of those are giving so little insight that all of their criticisms often boil down to a few things you could put on a checklist.

It is fun to go through the list and check off the worst possible IDE. A monster truly lacking is redeeming features.

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