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Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?

9 pointsby freefouranabout 10 years ago
Hi HN. What tools do you use for development? It doesn't matter what Operating System, nor the language. I am specifically looking for some interesting tools related to C/C++/Java that could make my life easier, but I suppose anything is welcome since perhaps some others will find them useful (i.e web development related tools, etc).

17 comments

adamtaaabout 10 years ago
I am primarily a .net developer so my tools are Microsoft related except for front end development. I use webstorm, grunt/bower/yeoman and npm for front end development. For .net and sql I use sql data management studio, visual studio 2010 and 2012 with resharper. Check out jetbrains products. Tehy probably have something that can help you with C++
webmavenabout 10 years ago
I use vim along with the plugins from <a href="http://vim.spf13.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vim.spf13.com&#x2F;</a> and a few small customizations.<p>Chrome Developer Tools + Postman.
hiram112about 10 years ago
Java Dev on Win7<p>Intellij Pro, Cygwin with Emacs, Git command line, sometimes SourceTree (though Intellij Git is almost as feature complete).<p>Tortoise on projects still using Subversion.<p>Firefox with Firebug, LiveHttpHeaders, and WebDeveloper though more and more Chrome Dev tools.<p>Usually the standard DB tool depending on database (PGAdmin for Postgres, SqlDeveloper for Oracle, etc.), though Intellij&#x27;s DB tools are getting &#x27;good enough&#x27;.<p>I&#x27;d pay good money for a well developed Emacs keyboard binding for Intellij (similar to Emacs++ for Eclipse)!
sabellaobamaabout 10 years ago
Web development: I ma using lots of tools. 1: Adobe Photoshop 2: Adobe Dreamweaver 3: Chrome Developer tools 4: Firefox Develper tools.<p><a href="http://www.saleonleather.com/product/dark-knight-rises-bane-coat-html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saleonleather.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;dark-knight-rises-bane-...</a>
codygmanabout 10 years ago
Emacs, vim (increasingly less), rxvt-unicode (terminal emulator), org-mode, org-agenda-mode, and xmonad window manager.<p>My goal is to be able to interactively develop <i>all</i> languages I may come across with a repl and at least a stepping debugger for when I need it.<p>I like to keep it all in emacs so I can add tasks to my todo list&#x2F;agenda with minimal effort (C-c C-r) no matter where I&#x27;m at then get back to work without even switching windows.
gumbyabout 10 years ago
I mainly use emacs, gcc, g++, git, gdb, plus bash, sed, egrep, tr etc. avrdude.<p>I do use Xcode, but can&#x27;t say I enjoy it much. If I could use Emacs more easily within Xcode I would be much happier since I do enjoy the dynamic environment of the Mac OS with ObjC. llvm is pretty good.
buildopsabout 10 years ago
C++ on Windows<p>Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 IncrediBuild <a href="http://www.incredibuild.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incredibuild.com</a><p>Also web development LAMP, Expression Editor &amp; Visual Studio, and Bluefish text editor
atmosxabout 10 years ago
Ruby developer:<p>A browser (between Safari, Chrome and FF) if the app is a web-app ... plus tmux + vim (with loads of plugins) + rvm (ruby version manager) + git (github&#x2F;bitbucket).<p>Occasionally I might use additional tools to enhance the workflow (growl for notifications, etc.)
classicchinsabout 10 years ago
Web Development : Sublime Text ! Awesome shit it is.. There are couple of other editors out there opensourced and which are amazing ! I usually prefer something light and powerful.
cmpbabout 10 years ago
Mac OSX with Homebrew, iTerm, Vim (split terminal with vim on top and repl on bottom is pretty nice), Atom (for big projects), git, GitLab, Firefox browser. That&#x27;s about all of my non-language-specific stack.
Someone1234about 10 years ago
Visual Studio. Toad (for Oracle). MS SQL Management Studio (for MS SQL). Linqpad a bit. Notepad++ a bit. Notepad a bit. ILSpy. A handful of Visual Studio extensions. And web-browsers&#x2F;development bars.
tajenabout 10 years ago
IntelliJ, pro edition. Sublime Text for drafts (when I don&#x27;t want to create a file in my project, for all my notes and snippets).<p>Chrome developer tools, git, Atlassian Stash and Confluence.
bgarabout 10 years ago
I write C&#x2F;Scheme&#x2F;Clojure&#x2F;Haskell:<p>Cocoa Emacs with Evil-mode, iTerm 2, tmux, Vim for quick edits, git.
Jeremy1026about 10 years ago
Web Development (LAMP): Sublime Text - Safari&#x2F;Chrome - Git<p>iOS&#x2F;OS X Development: Xcode - Git
camhenlinabout 10 years ago
Sublime Text 3.
sidcoolabout 10 years ago
A new Scala developer:<p>IntelliJ with Scala Plugin<p>Vagrant<p>Atlassian Stash
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haidraliabout 10 years ago
sublime&#x2F;vim, chrome, rvm, ubuntu