What's the difference between IDE and Text Editor?? 😕

Question

I am new in programming,so please tell me the difference between them,....

Answer 1

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here it is

Answer 2

IDE stands for "Integrated development environment" is a tool where you can write the code and also able to compile or debug it. ex: eclipse, IntelliJ IDE

Text editors like sublime text, notepad++ etc only able to edit files, instead of specializing in a particular type or language. You need to install the plugins in order to compile or debug the code.

Answer 3

what is the 'plugins'?