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by threeseed 4658 days ago
Most developers you see around will be using OSX. It just works and many UNIX apps have nice GUI wrappers/installers. You can pickup the older 17inch MacBook Pro off eBay which are fantastic, cheap developer machines. Plus if you are doing any web development then at some point you will need Photoshop/Illustrator.

As for IDE I personally use Sublime or Vim.
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ulisesrmzroche 4647 days ago
If you had to pick, sublime vs vim?
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jyu 4643 days ago
vim works on any Linux server you need to ssh into. It will probably work for any new upcoming languages unless the programming paradigm changes drastically.
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