I really enjoy Sublime and feel productive in it because I invested the time early on into customizing it and learning all the keyboard shortcuts to make myself as efficient as possible. “My preferred development environment is Sublime Text 3. Elixir has the developer ergonomics of a Ruby but can scale more efficiently and has a lot of useful operational benefits for real-time applications.”įavorite development environment/IDE if you have one and why? GraphQL isn't a language per se but an interesting new way to build web-based APIs. Currently, I'm interested in GraphQL and Elixir. “When my goal is to add new programming tools and concepts to my figurative tool belt, I reach for other languages or frameworks. On the client side, I start out with simple jQuery and add React components sparingly as necessary.'

For me, and for when it's a web-based application, that's Ruby on Rails. First, what's my goal with the project? If I'm looking to monetize a software product I reach for the language I'm most familiar with so that I can move as fast as possible and focus on whether I'm delivering business value to my clients. “When thinking about what programming languages I prefer it's all about context. What Development languages do you prefer and why? Harry has been developing for six years at VC backed startups, digital agencies, as a consultant, and now the founder of ConvoPanda the #1 community of B2B SaaS founders and marketers who generate leads and grow sales using chatbots. We sat down with three developers in three different industries to attempt to answer the new-age old question: Mac or PC? Editor's note: Thanks to a June 2019 Windows update that lets users run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows, students may now use PCs in any of our classes.

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