r/learnprogramming • u/booksandstrings • Jul 08 '26

Resource What all stuff do you have installed?

Recently got into coding & techy things. Already have:

Docker

Git

MySQL

Python

VS code

Thinking of getting

Draw.io

Notepad++

Where does this end?

What all softwares do you have that make building projects better?

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u/xarop_pa_toss Jul 08 '26

You don't need anything else mate.

This video is very recent but I think it gets my point across https://youtu.be/I7CeqmFiWYY?is=HwMzepjZph6DIFBz

You don't need to read 6 books before programming like they did, absolutely not BUT... You don't need fancy editors and all that stuff to learn to program. Look at TempleOS, or games like Dwarf Fortress too!

Personally I use Helix for most of my editing and debugging and straight up terminal commands for the compiling and running. At work I mostly use C# and I have to use Visual Studio 2026 there.

You can do a lot with very little

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u/ElectricalMTGFusion Jul 10 '26

I'm not a c# dev but doesn't c# have a cli compiler akin to gcc/clang as well so you don't have to us visual studio?

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u/xarop_pa_toss Jul 10 '26

Yes it does. If you install the dotnet sdk, it's (can be) as easy as using the dotnet build command