Question for Developers?

Question

im knidoff nerdy and i was curious, to me, in the world of software there are probably millions of softwares that do different things, but most do the same function and can be narrowed down to about 50 or so categories, and each category has their own audience with the standard one among them, like for designers and photographers Photoshop CS5 is the king, or for 3D studio productions Autodesk Maya is the king, etc.. ive made a list in my spare time writting down the "king" of each type of software but i got stumbled when i came across developer tools, alot of people like using Notepad++ for every single coding related thing be it web coding or scripting, ive come to think its the only tool programers use to make programs from start to finish and modify coding and such from start to finish, i havent done that much coding myself so i dont really know, what do you guys think? is it the only program a developer needs? (i know there are alternatives to it but im still lost)

Answer 1

There is no 'specific' program a developer needs,. most of it is personal choice but you dont need any specialist software in order to develop, hand coding is far more reliable and gives far cleaner code than a wysiwgy ( what you see is what you get ) program for example.



There is no right or wrong answer, there is no 'this is best', but whichever editor you choose it is best to hand code.

Answer 2

There are a whole range of editors that developers use. Emacs, VI, those integrated to IDE's (Visual Studio etc) even plain old notepad. In my experience developers using notepad++ just use it for adhoc / lightweight work, most heavy developing takes place in an IDE where you have the advantages of integrated debugging etc. And furthermore there's a whole world of development that does not happen on Windows, which kind of rules out Notepad++

Answer 3

For programming, All those tools are nothing, manual coding is the best. Those software sellers want to sell their tools using adds as it is the king.



Everyone use notepad++ for manual coding.



And your question is very funny.

Answer 4

@change there is no such thing as automatic coding :P