Integrated development environments are designed to maximize programmer productivity by providing tight-knit components with similar user interfaces. Overview Vim with integrated auto-completion and linting through an external plugin Many modern IDEs also have a class browser, an object browser, and a class hierarchy diagram for use in object-oriented software development.
The boundary between an IDE and other parts of the broader software development environment is not well-defined sometimes a version control system or various tools to simplify the construction of a graphical user interface (GUI) are integrated. Some IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Lazarus contain the necessary compiler, interpreter or both others, such as SharpDevelop, NetBeans do not. An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger. An integrated development environment ( IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development.