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What's the must have tools/software when developing on Windows?

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  • 1
    Depends on what you are developing....
  • 0
    I was thinking more in general and not dependent on anything specific. @bkwilliams
  • 10
    Ill just list whatever comes to my mind that can be useful (aka my own "stack")

    Visual studio with everything installed
    Chrome
    Visual studio code (or whatever editor you like, might aswell download all 3 others [sublime, notepad++, atom])
    Android studio
    Nodejs (with http-server)
    Docker
    Virtual box or vmware
    Git
    Gitkraken (if youre a noob like me)
    Spotify (you need that perfect mixtape)
    Java (JDK)
    Intellij (ditch eclipse unless youre starting out)
    Deluge (shh..)
    Adblock with anti adblock blocker
    Phpstorn
    Everything that is adobe
    Hackintosh ->
    Xcode
    Sketch
    Cocoapods
    Homebrew
    Ruby (and everything else with it)
    Python and pycharm (and all the other cool scientific programs that comes from it)
    Tensorflow (or whatever)
    Any cpp ide
    Unity
    Go?

    Thats all i can think off

    Why all of these? Well i just like having them all... idk (yeah its overkill ik)

    Have fun with these
  • 1
    Sublime. It's my go to editor, it's not the best at any one language but it does syntax highlighting for C++, Java, Python, html, JS etc.
  • 1
    Windex and a squeegee ...
  • 0
    Welcome to devRant
  • 0
    VSCode (tons on extensions) or Visual Studio Community
    LinqPad if you just want to mess around
  • 4
    Virtualbox!
    Too easy :(
  • 2
    @willol that's what I came here to say. Virtualbox with Linux installed!
  • 3
    PhpStorm
    PyCharm
    Idea
    Android Studio
    Visual Studio
    MSSQL Management Studio
    VMWare Workstation
    WinSCP
    Putty
    ColorPic
    Notepad++
    Adobe Photoshop
    PgAdmin
    Chrome
    GitLab
    YouTrack
    Skype

    Chrome
    Firefox
    Opera
    Vivaldi
    Edge
    IE
  • 1
    @MaxDeepfield a bit overkill don't you think? Half those ides do the same thing with plugins.
  • 0
    @Revenger I always use Spotify in chrome with Adblock. No ads forever! With the app there will be ads.
  • 0
    A hard drive with Linux installed 😝
  • 0
    Visual Studio Code and virtualization (VirtualBox, Vagrant or Docker, etc.)
  • 0
    Visual assist for visual Studio is a must have when working on large c++ Projekts because intellisense is crap.
  • 1
    Do not forget IIS, if you're web developer. And MariaDB comes handy too.
  • 0
    Thank you! @PoweredByCoffee
  • 2
    Why virtual box over hyper v or VMware? @willol
  • 0
    @anthonkendel I would suggest to start width virtual box because ist open source, my second choice would be hyper v if you have a hyper v enabled Windows version.
  • 0
    I'm currently using hyper v as that's recommended by docker. And then newer Windows have Ubuntu subsystem so it doesn't feel necessary running a Vm with Linux. (Especially on a laptop) @crafter
  • 0
    Must have tool for Windows... Uhm, maybe Linux?
  • 0
    A new OS
  • 0
    @anthonkendel it was just for the joke :) I use none of them anyway !
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    @zeprod fyi, ezblock allows you to use the standalone Spotify client. It's nice.
  • 0
    A vm running Linux.
  • 1
    @Ashkin thank you! Didn't know that :)
  • 1
    @Ashkin @zeprod but it doesnt FULLY block the ad, it only silents, so best thing to do is chage the bloody hosts file to the one that is found on github, this will do

    (Google "hosts file github")

    Plus the webapp is usually louder, so i would say stick to that
  • 0
    @Revenger I haven't had any ads at all since using it. It does break the layout a bit, though.
  • 0
    @anthonkendel the Ubuntu sub system is utter crap in win10...
  • 0
    @SHA-256 the version in Anniversary Update is, the new version coming out in Creator Update is much better
  • 0
    @bkwilliams maybe....a system that fails on apt update is not a good start...I prefer Linux through a VM though
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