What are your essential dev tools?

[Cromulent]

I'm curious what other people use. Here is what I use:

• Visual Studio Code
• Termius
• Git
• Github
• Parallels (macOS virtual machines)
• Pgadmin4 (PosgreSQL)
• Claude AI
• mailhog (testing email sending)
• Linode (VPS hosting)

 

[mid_gen]

Mainly -

Tethys - My own IDE
Goonhily - My own issue and session tracking system
Jodrell - My own performance and user testing tracking system
Visual Studio 2026 C++ toolchain
Tortoise SVN (client) + Visual SVN Server (server) for private stuff, self-hosted.
Git + Github for my open source stuff.
Claude Code
Opencode + Openrouter
TeamCity

I've just lapsed my Visual Assist license. RIP, was an absolutely essential tool for large C++ projects for a long time, but it's unecessary now with coding agents.

 

[Cromulent]

Mainly -

Tethys - My own IDE
Goonhily - My own issue and session tracking system
Jodrell - My own performance and user testing tracking system
Visual Studio 2026 C++ toolchain
Tortoise SVN (client) + Visual SVN Server (server) for private stuff, self-hosted.
Git + Github for my open source stuff.
Claude Code
Opencode + Openrouter
TeamCity

I've just lapsed my Visual Assist license. RIP, was an absolutely essential tool for large C++ projects for a long time, but it's unecessary now with coding agents.

Sounds good. That is a lot of software you have built for yourself. I'm mainly a Python person but I'm playing around with Go at the moment.

 

[GeorgeStorm]

Rider with Junie and a variety of models
Visual Studio and trying a bit of Cursor as have a team license
Git with either azure devops or jira/bitbucket

Mostly C# stuff

 

[throwaway4372]

- my brain
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