Development Environment

[Shawn Gossman]

So, I want to start teaching myself how to program.

I figured I shouldn't do it on my live web server.

What are some good development environments to download and use these days?

I'm using Windows 11 if that helps.

 

[Mike30]

I don't use windows since Windows Me. I am very happy with Linux
I use Sublime Text, FileZilla, MySQL Workbench. That's basically it. And I update/upgrade the websites live. Not too much complicated things.
Simple and straight to the point.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

At work I use Visual Studio Code (this IDE supports most languages, it has lots of extensions for different languages to be able to do things like menus generated on right clicks of function names to offer an option to go to the method definition. Also, stuff like autocomplete suggestions, syntax highlighting - stuff like that.

For SQL I use Dbeaver for databases hosted on company-owned servers, and Microsoft SQL Server Studio for databases hosted on Azure.

 

[AWS]

I'm old school. I use BBEdit. All my code is written from scratch. No IDE.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I used to use something called WAAMP or something like that. Is that still a thing?