Ask HN: Which dev tool would you personally pay for?

1 point·pragmaticpirate··8 comments

Is there a dev tool you love to use ? Would you pay to use it if your employer stopped paying for it ?

Under employment, I would not personally pay for any tools used for work that work will not pay for. Even construction workers understand this

jetbains software and I use it for work. I'm using datagrip, phpstorm and py charm

Resharper. Visual studio sucks in a few key areas without it.

Can you clarify what those key areas are? I recently been doing C# dev and I've been very impressed with Visual Studio especially coming from the web dev/java world.

Templating is better, suggestions are better, refactoring options are better, the search anywhere feature is better (VS's Ctrl+Q isn't bad per-se but it annoys me comparatively) and you can use F12 to navigate to binary sources and automatically decompile into them, which is invaluable when I just want to see what a third party component is doing without wanting to dig up its docs or source on GitHub. I hate hate HATE hitting F12 and seeing an interface contract, that's basically useless.

People keep telling me that VS is getting closer to feature parity, but when our volume license invariably breaks now and then and R# stops working, I find myself in strong anger in not much time. I worked for a time early on without it and I admit it's the sort of thing you don't appreciate until you have it.

Please don't tell me OP is looking for something to make based on these responses

I always pay for Sublime at an employer. Support your roolsmiths.

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