What Is an IDE?

Integrated Development Environment.

It sounds intimidating, but it’s just a program that makes coding easier.

No matter which language you use, you’ll almost always use an IDE. On this site, we mainly recommend JetBrains IDEs.

JetBrains has many IDEs, and for non-commercial use most of them are free. They’re powerful and make life easier for developers, which is why we recommend them.

If you already have coding experience and feel comfortable with an IDE like VS Code, you can skip the IDE setup content here and keep going.