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What apps do you use for development?

I am asking about photo editors, IDE/CE's, browsers, operating systems, languages, etc. Name what you use the most. If you have multiple common ones name them all.

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Primož Ajdišek

i use linux (whatever distribution even tho i tend to gravitate towards arch or ubuntu bases) or windows for OS
my editors of choice are Intellij idea (java), pycharm(python), visual studio(C#) visual studio code(everything and normal text)
for images i use gimp
for normal browsing i use firefox and while i am on windows i use edge for development purposes as a replacment for other chromium based browsers.
my main language of choice is c# but can also use HTML and CSS php java some python rust and few other languages.
i also use a lot of docker
as VCS i use git combined with github gitlab(self-hosted or publicly hosted) or in few cases azure repos.

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Tim Apple

I have a Surface Laptop 3 and a System 76 Galago Pro (Pop_OS!), I tend to use the Surface more. I use VS Code, WSL, the Affinity apps, and just started playing in Nu shell. As far as browsers go, I'm a tramp I have Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, and Tor installed and jump around between them often.

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Timotej Avsec

Hey! So I'm a full-stack web developer who mainly uses Laravel and Vue.js. As and IDE I use PhpStorm by JetBrains and I love it! It supports so many things out of the box (I use time tracking and database explorer almost all the time). For local server I use Homestead, which is basically Vagrant Ubuntu box which includes services necessary for Laravel development (Nginx server, multiple versions of PHP, MySql, Redis, ...), and it is also very easy to setup. Now for other tools I use: our team uses Jira on daily basis to track tasks and Jira Tempo to log our working hours. My OS is Windows 10 :)

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Raffauu

Hi there. I'm a computer mathematics student and use
-Manjaro (love)
-Windows (hate, but need)
-Jet brains apps, Clion and Intellij, which I'm surprised how you're not using them :D
-Kate and notepadqq
-Wolfram Mathematica (yuck)
-Photoshop and gimp
-Firefox
-Maybe not an app but Thinkpad x250 (share the thinkpad love)
For my university I mostly use java and cpp, looking for something new, what would you say?

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Glenn Paquette • Edited

I recently converted to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10. Windows was really bogging down the system so it was time to change. Happy with Unbuntu so far!

Vscode with Dracula theme as my code editor
Firefox and chromium (I flip flop between the two) both with Dracula theme.
Insomnia... With dracula theme.

I recently saw a post on how you can get Dracula theme in everything... And they were right! Oh, and Ubuntu with Dracula theme too... I may be obsessed.

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Jacob Colborn

For development I daily:

Windows 10 with Ubuntu for WSL
Hyper for windows terminal emulation (it's electron based)
VS Code for IDE
Chrome for browsing

I also have a laptop that uses the same as above except it uses Ubuntu 18.04 and ZSH for shell.

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Diego Henrique Oliveira

Mac, iTerm2 and vim. I wrote python, go and bash using those tools.

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Joe

I'm mainly a node.js guy these days.

  • win10
  • vscode
  • brave web browser
  • krita for a photo editor.
  • postman
  • cmdr is my terminal wrapper
  • listary is my launcher. I have actions setup for all my dev needs e <projectname> opens that project in vscode. gh <projectname> opens the github repo. stuff like that
  • trello
  • joplin for notes. I use this as a private blog, long term todos, notes, everything
  • dashlane to store passwords
  • undraw.co/ for any graphics needed
  • icomoon.app for a personalized icon font for a given project

I think that sums up my EDC tools

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Patryk Rzucidło

ArchLinux ❤️

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Patryk Rzucidło • Edited
  • Vscode and sublimetext
  • Github desktop
  • Isomnia (similar as postman)
  • Photopea online and Kolourpaint
  • Filezilla and Terminal with ssh
  • Nodejs, nginx, apache, php, mysql, lowdb, pm2, markserv
  • Beekeeper studio
  • ArchLinux on ASUS ROG G751JY
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sam

ubuntu 20.04, neovim, chromium

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Ubuntu 20.04 (home), MacOS (work), SublimeText, Gitkraken, Glimpse, Insomnia, Firefox

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Ayushman

Due to some network issues in windows I have switched to ubuntu ... And I'm loving it.

VSCode and Android Studio for coding
Brave and Firefox for browser
Figma for designing
Inkscape for vector art
And Kdenlive for video editing

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Braydon Kains • Edited

As an OS I use Fedora. I used the Fedora net installer to build my own distro of sorts with the right software, desktop environments, windows managers etc. And it's been stable af through a number of updates.
For work I have to use Visual Studio about 60% of the time, but pretty much all the rest of the time I use vim. When combined with tmux I really like the workflow I've settled into.
Browser is Firefox, I really like the dev tools and I like the built in privacy features.
I use C# and Javascript at work, but on my own projects I've been exploring Crystal, Go, Rust, and more to find my forever language.

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Uchena Miller

I use these things for my development :
Visual studio code,
Gimp and inskape for editing graphics,
Mozilla and chrome for testing,
Ngrok mostly for handson mobile-first Development and to share with my mentorship group,
FileZilla for sharing,
And last but not least
For my Operating System I now use Ubuntu 20.04