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An Integrated Development Environment (**IDE**) or Interactive Development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, build automation tools and a debugger.

## See also

- [IDE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) on Wikipedia