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Features I'd like to see in future IDEs

In this article, we propose a wishlist of things we would love to see in a future IDE.

How often have you been in the middle of an intense hour-long debugging session only to realize you KNOW that some piece of data exists SOMEWHERE IN MEMORY but you just can't seem to locate it in a deeply nested object or array? For example TODO (DEVELOPER INITIALS) could appear in a different color to make it easy to find remaining work specific to you, and we could use others for things like STEP, or GROUP that lets a highlighted line stand out. We all know the imminent out-of-sync dangers of separating documentation from code, but comments are still relegated to text only which just seems terribly inadequate where a UML diagram would go much further in explaining certain pieces of logic.

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