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Top Tools Every Developer Must Have

Tony Dev on October 11, 2023

Essential Tools for Developers: Streamline Your Workflow Developers rely on a suite of indispensable tools to enhance their productivity...
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tyler36 • Edited

Thanks for the article.

Under "Terminal Emulators with Tailored UI" you only list 1 option, iTerm. Perhaps you can help out other devs by listing some options for Windows and Linux.

Personally, I find Windows Terminal to be a great option for Windows users.

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Tony Dev

Thanks for sharing. I will add this option to the article

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Not sure why you would list VSCode as an IDE, and SublimeText as just a text editor? Sublime is just as capable as VSCode, is faster, and is less memory hungry.

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Tony Dev

By Wikipedia:

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. 
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Jon Randy 🎖️

I never said VSCode wasn't an IDE

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Tony Dev

So wha do you mean in "why you would list VSCode as an IDE"

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

The whole sentence: "Not sure why you would list VSCode as an IDE, and SublimeText as just a text editor?"

I was asking why you would make the distinction, as they are essentially both the same or extremely similar from a functionality perspective... with SublimeText possibly being better than VSCode in a lot of ways, and certainly capable of doing the same stuff. It also has a very large number of available plug-ins and integrations, just as VSCode does... and "brings together code editing, debugging, and building in a single, feature-rich environment" just as you say IDEs do.

The sentence you write about VSCode - "It supports a wide range of programming languages and offers essential features such as debugging, Git integration, and IntelliSense." - could equally be applied to SublimeText

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Tony Dev

Oh sorry for miss understanding.

I listed Sublimetext in Text Editor because it's a lightweight, It doesn't mean Sublimetext is not IDEs

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Jon Randy 🎖️

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Zhang Li

Visual Studio Code is a text editor with extensions.

Visual Studio is an IDE.

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Tony Dev

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor made by Microsoft - By Wikipedia

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Lam

great post!