The Turbo Pascal “IDE” was my very first dive into programming, and it’s still the best experience I’ve ever had! Maybe it’s just because it was my first, but wow, it already had tons of cool features back then, like syntax highlighting, step debugging with breakpoints, and a quick peek at variable values.

Do you think there’s anything like that out there today? The only ones I can think of that are closed are nano and micro editors, but I wouldn’t really call them IDEs.