Yes it was before PowerGUI and ISE... I believe the original product was by @TobiasPSP and the editor was great and offered an enhanced console but it was separate from the editor.
Tools far more user friendly than @code can also be fully extensible and offer a superior UX. e.g. PowerGUI had a great extensibility model. PowerShell ISE does not. Everybody saying @code, @code, @code forces it on folks. We can and should do much better, with or without @code.
"might"?
I mean, sure. MAYBE it won't repeat what happened to Lotus123, Netscape, PowerGUI, Argonaut, Yahoo Widgets. Maybe it will be like Word Perfect or McAfee...
until the last year or so, I was a big user of Quest's PowerGUI. Jumped to #VSCode and haven't opened anything else since. I even use it for other bits and pieces now too.
I stumbled upon this (now invalid) PowerGUI Pro promotion when cleaning my office this past weekend. Brings back many fond memories working on all aspects of that product, and promoting it while attending the #PowerShell Deep Dive events (predecessor to @PSHSummit events). #tbt
Ran into this tool called PowerGUI. It packages a ps1 and DLL in a .Net binary and executes it. Almost like malware behavior, but not malware. I figured I'd share this so pentesters can play with it. Google PowerGUI Script Editor.
What do you use to edit PowerShell? ISE? ISE w/ ISE Steroids? PowerGUI? Visual Studio Code? Historically I've been a PowerGUI user but am about to give VS Code a run.