Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?

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Post by freefouran » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

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).

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?

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Post by adamtaa » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

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++

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Post by sidcool » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

A new Scala developer:

IntelliJ with Scala Plugin

Vagrant

Atlassian Stash

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Post by tajen » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 6:36 PM UTC

IntelliJ, pro edition. Sublime Text for drafts (when I don't want to create a file in my project, for all my notes and snippets).

Chrome developer tools, git, Atlassian Stash and Confluence.

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Post by atmosx » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

Ruby developer:

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/bitbucket).

Occasionally I might use additional tools to enhance the workflow (growl for notifications, etc.)

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Post by haidrali » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

sublime/vim, chrome, rvm, ubuntu

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Post by Jeremy1026 » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

Web Development (LAMP): Sublime Text - Safari/Chrome - Git

iOS/OS X Development: Xcode - Git

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Post by bgar » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 9:12 PM UTC

I write C/Scheme/Clojure/Haskell:

Cocoa Emacs with Evil-mode, iTerm 2, tmux, Vim for quick edits, git.

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Post by codygman » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 9:42 PM UTC

Emacs, vim (increasingly less), rxvt-unicode (terminal emulator), org-mode, org-agenda-mode, and xmonad window manager.

My goal is to be able to interactively develop all languages I may come across with a repl and at least a stepping debugger for when I need it.

I like to keep it all in emacs so I can add tasks to my todo list/agenda with minimal effort (C-c C-r) no matter where I'm at then get back to work without even switching windows.

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Post by Someone1234 » Fri, Mar 13, 2015, 10:26 PM UTC

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/development bars.