How to make a development environment

Every development environment has a

• Shell (ZSH, Fish, Bash, Powershell, etc)

• Code Editor (Vim/Neovim, Emacs, Visual Studio, VS Code, etc.)

• OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.)

• Usual Field Of Programming (Web Development, Terminal Apps, Drivers, Game Development, etc.)

Shells

A shell is a way to interact with a computer using commands, here are MY recommendations.

• Linux: Fish or ZSH

• macOS: Fish or ZSH

• Windows (WSL): Fish or ZSH

• Windows (Regular): Powershell, Git Bash, or msys2

Code Editors (IDEs)

A code editor (or IDE) is an app used to edit code (duh), here are MY recommendations.

• Power Users: Neovim/Vim

• GNU Lovers: Emacs

• Microsoft Worshippers: Visual Studio

• Rich Developers: Jetbrains Suite

• Normies: Visual Studio Code

OS (Operating System)

This section is pretty self-explanatory, but here are MY recommendations.

• Rich Devs: macOS

• Linux Normie: Ubuntu

• Linux Flexer: Arch Linux

• Normies: Windows

Field Of Programming

This isn't a recommendation, but a small guide to fields.

Web Development

Front End

This is the development of the graphical user interface (GUI) of a website

Types Of Languages needed:

• Markup (HTML, Pug/Jade, Haml, Slim, Mustache, Nunjucks, etc)

• Styling (CSS, PostCSS, SCSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, etc)

• Scripting Language (Javascript, Typescript, CoffeeScript, LiveScript, etc.)

Back End

This refers to the server side of an application and everything that communicates between the database and the browser.

Popular Languages:

• Python

• NodeJS

• Java

• C#

Terminal Apps

Small, text-based apps are usually meant for developers.

Popular Languages:

• Python

• NodeJS

• Rust

• Go

• C++

• C

Drivers

Apps that run in the background that help a service and are really important for Computers.

Languages:

• Rust

• C++

• C

Conclusion

There are many tools, shells, and Fields To Programming, hopefully this article made it simpler!