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pjmlptoday at 7:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

No, Xerox PARC invented the IDE, just like they did with the GUI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Development_Environment

IDEs go back to how Mesa (Tajo), Interlisp-D and Smalltalk work.

Here are some overview papers

"The Mesa programming environment"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800225.806843

Interlisp-D, you can see all on the recovery project

https://interlisp.org/

And naturally the famous Smalltalk issue on Byte,

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

Turbo Pascal naturally did what was possible on home computers hardware, the iconic 3.0 version that made it take off was released in 1985.