An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software application that combines comprehensive facilities for software development into a single graphical user interface (GUI). Use this tag for questions about IDEs in Ubuntu. DO NOT use this tag for questions about IDE drives or for questions about programming.
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design environment, integrated debugging environment or interactive development environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development under a single graphical user interface (GUI).
An IDE normally consists of:
- a source code editor
- a compiler and/or an interpreter
- build automation tools
- a debugger
Popular IDEs include among others: