Recently reading the question What languages do you use without an IDE? One question asked in a few answers was "is Notepad++ and IDE?"
One answers to the original question said "None, I use vim…", implying that vim is an IDE. But then another answer suggested vim isn't an IDE.
So where is the line?
What about notepad, ed, or nano?
Is the only non-IDE coding technique the butterfly technique?
Best Answer
Taken literally, IDE = Integrated Development Environment.
This is the way i look at it:
Notepad++ allows for development (eg. you can write code), but the other areas of development are not covered. I've never used notepad++ for development, only for occasionally editing files.