What tools do you use for programming? Like editors and environments?

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[Jason C. McDonald]

After years of experimentation, my development stack has mostly settled out.

Environment:

• Ubuntu 17.10 (currently MATE)
• LLVM Clang 5.0 (for C and C++)
• CMake (3.9.1 right now)
• Python 3.6
• Sphinx: for documentation
• Git

Editors and IDEs:

• Atom: My primary IDE/editor for C/C++/Python/RestructuredText/Markdown/HTML/CSS/etc.
• Visual Studio Code: I'm experimentally using this right now, and I may switch to it from Atom.
• Vim: Any time I need a command-line or quick-and-dirty text editor
• Guake: This serves for most of my terminal needs.
• Terminator: I use this when I need a dedicated terminal for a long work session.

Coding Tools:

• cppcheck (1.80)
• Pylint
• Pytest: Python testing
• PawLIB Goldilocks: C++ testing
• Banshee and Spotify (because music IS a programming tool!)
• Valgrind: Memory checking and dynamic analysis
• KCachegrind: Profiling data visualizer
• Clang memory sanitizers: Memory checking and dynamic analysis
• Speedcrunch: Calculator

Other Tools:

• LibreOffice Draw (migrating to Dia): Flowcharts and diagrams
• Hamster Indicator: Time tracking.
• Calibre: eBook viewer
• Hexchat: IRC client
• Jenkins: CI
• Phabricator: Issue tracking/repository hosting/wiki (I use GitHub instead for personal projects)
• Inkscape: Vector graphics

[Usama Baig]

JetBrains IDEs for code and vagrant for environment

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

Atom as an editor (sometimes even emacs) and vagrant (with VirtualBox) for the environment.

[Elsa Gonsiorowski]

I just switched to Emacs from SublimeText and I'm really loving it. I don't spend my whole day deep in code, so a full-blown IDE isn't something I need, but the built-in shell and git integration (via magit) are amazing.

Also, I highly recommend Fish Shell

The best pro-tip I've ever received is to set my font size in all my applications to be relatively large (14pt+). This decreases eye strain and has had the biggest impact on making my day more enjoyable.

[Aravind Balla]

Here is mine.

• iTerm 2 with oh-my-zsh configured. (always open)
• VSCode (with material theme)
• Docker, if environments are necessary
• Chrome for dev, Firefox otherwise.

[maxdevjs]

Why Firefox otherwise?

[Aravind Balla]

I wanted to try the new rendering engine and it looks like its faster!

[Carles Mata]

If you like Firefox engine, you have firefox developer edition for development purposes too :)

[Aravind Balla]

Recently tried this out.

[Kwami]

My toolchain is as follows:

• Macbook / MacOS, Ubuntu machines in the cloud, and Termux on Android for dev
• Docker for application containers, still testing the waters for a good orchestration tool (Using Convox atm, Kubernetes seems to be what ppl recommend these days)
• Homebrew / Linuxbrew for software management
• Iterm2 (probably the most used app on my mac after the browser, always open)
• ZSH shell (zplug for plugin management, and many, many functions and aliases, I don't know how I manage to remember most)
• Tmux (iTerm tmux integration is godsent!)
• Vim is my "IDE" (too many plugins I've crafted over the years, and now things just work right. First thing I do on a new dev box is open vim, source my .vimrc, PlugInstall)
• various shell tools
• Gitlab for personal stuff (shell config, scripts, etc)
• Github + SemaphoreCI for actual work
• Dash for API documentation
• Alfredapp for navigation (it has a great plugin for dash which allows searching docs a breeze)
• Android Studio / XCode when I really, really have to (haven't been able to replicate their toolchain at the shell to a level I'm comfortable with yet)
• Chrome + Devtools, Firefox here and there (need to spend more time with FF, I like their devtools better)

I don't really use graphical IDEs because they tend to be resource-heavy on my underpowered machines, and I like my dev environment as portable as can possibly be. My routine whenever I connect to a new box is to run a shell script that installs the tools I use and configures the shell just the way I like :)

[aurel kurtula]

Here it is:

• Mac book pro (with an external monitor and a wireless keyboard)
• sublime text - for front end stuff
• vs code
• gitlab.com - I see it as part of my tooling.
  • I create a private repo for all the projects
  • I have a ES6, Webpack, Gulp and Grunt builder which I clone and use


• Codekit - when I want to design something and can't be bothered using a builder


• terminal - of course, it's always open


• Photoshop - I've been a "design on browser" person since it was questionable but when I have a fuzzy layout idea, moving things around a photoshop canvas is easier


• Frank a fantastic color picker

Strange but extremely helpful:

Mac's text-to speech feature! - When writing the best advice is to read your content out loud. I can't be bothered, so I use the text-to-speech feature and I manage to get all the spellings but also, if I can be bothered, I'm able to make what I write sound more like me!

[abiduzz420]

Here are the tools I use:

Editors: VS Code, Atom, LightTable, Emacs(amateur though)
IDEs: CodeBlocks, JetBrains
Browser: Chrome(mostly), Quantum Firefox for a change
Terminals: Git Bash, Powershell,Cmder, Ubuntu Bash (too many)
Note taking: Typora, Sticky Notes
Chat apps during dev: Slack, Gitter
Resources & Bookmarks: Airtable,Chrome
Hosting code: Github, Bitbucket
Blog: Medium
Project Plan: Asana, Trello
Prototyping: JustInMind, Pencil & Paper

[nasa9084]

Editor: emacs
Version Control: git/GitHub
GitClient: magit(emacs)
OS: macOS(office), Arch Linux(home)
Language: Go, Python
Shell: zsh
Terminal: iTerm2
CI: Travis CI
Other:

• Vagrant
• Docker
• Slack

[John Stewart]

• vscode - take time and setup your debugging environments depending on what app you working on. The debugging features have saved me tons of time. There is a bit of a learning curve but worth it.

• iTerm - always open

• Insomnia - for API requests

• nvm - switching between node envs

• Pomy - personal pomodoro time keeper, I like working in 25 minutes increments and breaking my tasks up that way. Then 5 minutes of whatever to think about something else for a bit then back to it. Goal is 4 - 8 Poms each day which is ~2 - 4 hours of solid coding which yields more than you might think.

• Brave - browsing and reading for breaks in between poms

• Chrome + Devtools - majority work and some browsing

• SimpleNote - quick notes, pseudocode, articles to read later

Pretty much all of these are open all the time. Also when I am working I mute my notifications as they get pretty distracting and annoying.