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Ask HN: What do you develop with?

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What tools do you develop with, and in what language (and operating system)?

I just want to see what the HN community uses for coding

I do mostly web-app work and gigabytes of text munging.

My current work box is an underpowered WinXP machine that was the replacement after a tree fell through my office window and right onto my lovely new box. I did snag a nice Logitech laser mouse, as the desks are too shiny for old-style optical mice and the thing is so horribly precise when I need it.

Developing environment-wise, I'm shifting from jEdit to Emacs as I better learn the latter; I'm enjoying this process. Things like Ido have been a revelation. I occasionally have to muck around with Visual Studio, and I don't enjoy that process.

SVN for source control, though I've poked around with Git. Intend to transition there, too. I mostly use TortoiseSVN as the UI.

Executor (http://executor.dk) is a huge productivity aid - with a few keystrokes, I can start pretty much anything on the computer without worrying about the mouse or the Start menu.

AltDesk (http://www.astonshell.com/altdesk) is the Windows multiple-desktop solution I've been using for some years. Between 2 19" flatscreens and the nine virtual desktops I have set up, it's not hard to keep windows organized.

The Gimp for rare excursions into image-editing.

Outlook for mail because I have no real choice in this Exchange shop.

Python for more scripting uses than I can list, including a program to enforce a long list of email filters/rules expressed in a YAML file. (Outlook has a ridiculously small limit on the amount of rules you can have, and I like to give clients their own folders.)

I've been tinkering with Growl for Windows as an enhancement to my pomodoro-timer program; so far, not bad.

Although it's not specifically focused on HN users, http://usesthis.com/ is a really cool site showcasing the hardware, software and work flow of some pretty successful people.

Hardware: Your average desktop PC OS: Emacs Boot loader: Debian stable

Languages: C, Python, JavaScript, Perl (and various others from time to time)

Other tools: git (along with git-flow and git-annex), zsh, gnus (mail reading; emacs), erc (irc; emacs), empathy (jabber), screen (on my various servers), kvm + virt-manager to manage my virtual machines

Frequently used programs from within my own software: glib, django, zeromq, mongodb, flask, jQuery, TAP::Harness

13" Thunderbolt Macbook Pro running OS 10.6.7 and I am using iOS SDK 4.0. I'd rather not have to use a Mac but Uncle Steve has rules.

I've been thinking about getting the same MBP for dev work too, mainly for two reasons: to get into iOS development, and unlike the larger models it seems competitive price/feature-wise with most other 13" laptops.

I just hate the thought of giving up Linux as my primary environment. You wouldn't happen to run Linux on it in capacity, either vm or dual-boot/bootcamp?

I don't personally, but I know that you can install Linux onto a Mac using bootcamp if you wanted to do so.

Hardware - Toshiba Satellite

OS - Fedora Linux (F12) (Yeah, I know, I'm a little behind on my OS updates. So sue me)

Language: Mostly Groovy, some Java, possibly starting to mix in some Scala and/or Clojure in the future. Don't rule out seeing some R and/or Haskell at some point.

Shell: bash

Editor : Emacs

IDE: Eclipse

On the left is my personal computer, on the right is my work computer.

Hardware - Lenovo Thinkpad T60 | IBM Thinkpad T40. Both have a 1400x1050 screen and ordinary specs. I tried to get a second monitor, but couldn't sort out the drivers.

OS - Crunchbang Linux 10 (just upgraded...hmm, maybe I should try dual monitors again) | Crunchbang Linux 9.04

Language - Python, Common Lisp, Clojure | Java, Java, Java, the odd Python script.

Shell - bash

Editor - Vim for Python and Java, Emacs+SLIME for CL and Clojure. (I've finally stopped using viper-mode!)

IDE - Over my dead body. Unless you count Emacs.

Mischellaneous tools - Leiningen for Clojure (I really should learn git / get a GitHub account....) | ant to compile, svn for version control

Hardware: A SUN Ultra 45.

OS: Solaris 10 w/ Trusted Extensions

Language: About a 75/25 percent mix of Java and Groovy. respectively.

Shell: Bash. My "compiling!" project at work is to detangle 20 years of accumulated cruft that's been stored in alises, .profile files and other sourced crap and replace it with a sensible yet functionally identical .bashrc.

Editor: Vi

IDE: Eclipse

Scourge of my existence: Clearcase and the idiotic admin team that supports it and claims SVN is an "untested" solution and spreads FUD every chance they get. SVN doesn't force updates to your local drive any more than Toyota cars force you to accelerate uncontrollably.

Am I the only .Net Developer here?

OS: Windows 7

Language: C#

Editor: VS 2010

Same here .( the second .NET developer in HN)

Another.Learning Ruby or Python to work in some web ideas that will help me master one of the languages.

Hardware - Macbook pro

OS - Ubuntu 10.10 (dual-boots Ubuntu and OS X with rEFIt but I always use Ubuntu).

Shell - Bash

Language - Ruby

Editor - gEdit, Nano, Quanta+

Git client - Git Cola GUI, shell

I'm thinking about the same setup. Which MBP do you use. Have any problems with Linux video and/or wifi drivers on it?

I use a 2008 MBP. Video and wifi all work fine with no problems. I use VLC for video. Only problem is that the MBP runs hot on Ubuntu.

I've been using this setup for close to 2 years and I'm happy with it.

On the left is my desktop computer, on the right is my notebook, both are work machines.

Mostly I do web development and I use to use VM's for Windows testing, but that stopped once I got the notebook.

Hardware - Desktop Hardware(Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD, 2 Monitors) | Lenovo Thinkpad X200s.

OS - Debian testing (Wheezy) | Windows 7

Languages - Python, PHP, C++, C#, Javascript

IDE - WebIDE for PHP | SharpDevelop for C#

Shell - bash

Editor - Nano, Vim, Quanta+ depending on my mood

Source Control - svn, git

Just ordered a t420 that will be running windows 7 but also have virtualbox VMs running Linux for when I'm doing Clojure development, which is all done in emacs with Lein. Also use Visual Studio Shell for F# and Express for C# development.

Home built desktop already running this setup. The biggest downside to not paying for VS for me is the fact I have to run both the IDEs and if I want to use an F# DLL in C# code I have to compile one and then feed the results into the other as a reference.

Visual Studio side by side with emacs.

Most of the time on Windows Server 2k8R2 64 bits. Dual Xeon w/12gb of ram.

Does no one use VM's?

I"m doing web development in my ubuntu VM. I don't have to worry about linux vs window environment problems and I can still test my local work on windows.

Languages - python, javascript

IDE - Eclipse

Source Control - Mercurial

Hardware - Standard DELL with two monitors

Hardware - 27" iMac, Macbook Pro

OS - Snow Leopard

Language - Corona SDK LUA (http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/)

IDE - Eclipse

Source control - SVN

Graphics - GIMP

Email - Gmail

Hardware - macbook pro 15", and external 24" 1920x1200

OS - os x, and windows xp via VMWare

Shell - zsh

Language - mostly ruby

Editor - emacs with emacs-starter-kit

Git client - CLI, or magit from emacs, occasionally GitX

Macbook Air w/

- Parallels + Win7 + Visual Studio for C# stuff

- FDT (Eclipse plugin) for ActionScript stuff

- XCode for Objective C stuff

- Unity but I haven't really used it yet

Any performance complaints?

It could benefit from a better CPU and more memory of course, but heat's been the only real issue - when it gets too hot OS X's kernal_task does some stuff to keep the CPU busy doing nothing which really impacts performance a lot.

linux (debian) on both laptop on server. Mostly working with Python now. Use the excellent WingIDE as my Python editor, Komodo Edit for editing HTML/CSS. Emacs for everything else. Current tools used - Enthought Python Distribution, ZeroMQ, Django, tokyo tyrant, Postgresql, bunch of python and bash scripts that make development tolerable.

Dell M6500 17" (1920x1200) + Dell 27" U2711 (2560x1440) + Linux + GVim + Perl (Catalyst/DBIx::Class) + MySQL + Nginx

OS: Arch Linux

Shell: zsh

Stack: nginx + php-fpm + pgbouncer + postgresql

Editor: gVim

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