Ask HN: What's your development setup like?

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by octatoan • 11 years ago

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linux + bash + ssh + nano. not necessarily in that order. puts me on any server environment with a swiss army spaceship in hand.

veddox2• 11 years ago

linux + bash + emacs for most things, Eclipse for Java projects.

Gitg and Bazaar Explorer are useful GUIs for their respective VCSs. (Not that I strictly need them, but I like seeing a graphic representation of the project history.)

izolate• 11 years ago

osx, bash, vim, tmux

aprdm• 11 years ago

osx, zsh, sublime text

andresmanz• 11 years ago

arch linux, bash, vim. IntelliJ IDEA for Java stuff, QtCreator sometimes for C++ stuff.

rifung• 11 years ago

Ubuntu for desktop, OS X for laptop, bash and vim for mostly Java development

iheredia• 11 years ago

Ubuntu with Fish Shell and Jet Brains IDEs (mainly RubyMine, PyCharm and WebStorm)

veddox2• 11 years ago

I stumbled across Fish Shell recently, it seems quite interesting. Why do you use that rather than, say, bash?

andymurd• 11 years ago

Ubuntu (with lots of VirtualBox VMs) + sublime text. Most VMs have node.js, Puppet and Apache.

I try to avoid customising my dev env too much as it has caused my problems in the past when moving employers or platforms but that is a personal preference (I know lots of other devs that go for customisation in a big way).

lstrope• 11 years ago

OSX - Iterm2 - TMUX - Emacs

Full mouse support enabled for Iterm2/Tmux/Emacs so I can click and drag windows/frames, etc.

Clipboard access is seamless with respect to the fact that Emacs has different Cut/Paste commands than OSX - but when I do cut/yank in Emacs the results are available for me to Command+v inside OSX.

For me there is almost nothing missing from using anything in GUI mode for my development purposes. I live in the console and have found very little reason to switch.

Using RubyMine for Rails is awesome and I used to be a die-hard fanboy... but I made the jump to the console 2 years ago and haven't missed _anything_. I have found no productivity gains over living in RubyMine/Intellij vs. Emacs/Iterm2/Tmux.

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