What is "IDE code"?

politician · on Sept 30, 2012

Visual Studio 2012 tries to provide IntelliSense for JavaScript, but it'll only show symbols it can find at design-time (statically-reachable) instead of all of the possible symbols available at run-time. The IDE has the same problem with C# dynamics. Anyway, C# developers raised on perfect IntelliSense from versions past can stumble when relying on IntelliSense for JavaScript. This can lead to code that's written to appease the IDE instead of the idioms of the language.

Personally, I prefer the way Sublime Text 2 implements auto-complete (for dynamic languages anyway) -- it simply indexes the words previously typed in the file.

nahname · on Sept 30, 2012

ReSharper/Web Storm do a much better job wrt to JavaScript. I still don't feel like I understand what you mean by "IDE code". Is all code written in an IDE, "IDE code"? I was left with the impression that it is some inferior subset.

Would you write C#/Java outside of an IDE to prevent "IDE code"? What would the difference be?