Best Development Tools of 2022
Languages
C# 🆓
C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. C# encompasses static typing, strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented, and component-oriented programming disciplines.
Windows: Pre-Installed Support
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
C++ 🆓
C++ is a general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or “C with Classes”. The language has expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ now has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
Windows: Pre-Installed Support
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
Javascript 🆓
JavaScript, often abbreviated JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Over 97% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for web page behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
Python 🆓
Python is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured, object-oriented and functional programming.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Pre-Installed Support
PHP 🆓
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
jQuery 🆓
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. As of May 2019, jQuery is used by 73% of the 10 million most popular websites.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
HTML5 🆓
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
Node.js 🆓
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user’s web browser.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
Kotlin 🆓
Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of Kotlin’s standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise.
Windows: Text Editor
Mac: Text Editor
Linux: Text Editor
Text Editors
Vim 🆓
Vim is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy’s vi. Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991.
Sublime Text 🆓
Sublime Text is a shareware cross-platform source code editor. It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages. Users can expand its functionality with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. To facilitate plugins, Sublime Text features a Python API.
Notepad++ 🆓
Notepad++ is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. The product’s name comes from the C postfix increment operator. Notepad++ is distributed as free software.
Brackets 🆓
Brackets is a source code editor with a primary focus on web development. Created by Adobe Inc., it is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License, and is currently maintained on GitHub by open-source developers. It is written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Visual Studio Code 🆓
Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git.
Gaming
Autodesk 3ds Max 🆓
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and must be used on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Autodesk Maya 🆓
Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to just Maya, is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, originally developed by Alias and currently owned and developed by Autodesk. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications, animated films, TV series, and visual effects.
Blender 🆓
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and, formerly, video games.
Alice 🆓
Alice is an object-based educational programming language with an integrated development environment. Alice uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3D models. The software was developed first at University of Virginia in 1994, then Carnegie Mellon, by a research group led by Randy Pausch.
Mobile Platforms
Android Studio 🆓
Android Studio is the official integrated development environment for Google’s Android operating system, built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems or as a subscription-based service in 2020.
Appery.io 💲
Appery.io is a cloud-based HTML5, Ionic, jQuery Mobile, and hybrid app-building platform for developing mobile apps, web apps, and PWA s. Appery.io is a browser-based drag-and-drop visual builder tool that supports Android and iOS with integrated Apache Cordova/PhoneGap output.. The platform is used by DIYers to create apps for their customers.
Appcelerator 💲
Appcelerator is a privately held mobile technology company based in San Jose, California. Its main products are Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform. Founded in 2006, Appcelerator serves industries including retail, financial services, healthcare, and government. As of 2014, it raised more than $90 million in venture capital financing.
React Native 🆓
React Native is an open-source UI software framework created by Meta Platforms, Inc. It is used to develop applications for Android, Android TV, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Web, Windows and UWP by enabling developers to use the React framework along with native platform capabilities. It is also being used to develop virtual reality applications at Oculus.
Postman 🆓/💲
Postman is a web API client and development environment. It was originally developed to help API testing and programming with remote cloud compute resources using http web requests. Example cloud computing resources that allow for API programming include Amazon Web Services, Upcloud, Google Compute Engine and Alibaba Cloud
Docker 🆓/💲
Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine. It was first started in 2013 and is developed by Docker, Inc.
Windows Platforms
Visual Studio Community 🆓
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight.
XAML UI Controls 🆓
An application with no greater ambition than helping you design or build a XAML universal Windows application. Showing you the list of controls from the SDK and a detailed view of each element.
Devcenter 🆓
Devcenter is an online networking and community platform with 15k+ software developers, creatives, and technology professionals.
#Code 🆓
#Code is an online compiler that that lets you compile and execute code snippets on your Windows 10 device. As of now, #Code supports over 12 programming languages and is a one-of-a-kind app on the Windows Store. You can write and compile your code snippets on your PC, tablet or mobile device. #Code is an elegant way to learn and explore various programming languages.
Character Map UWP 🆓
A modern, native UWP replacement for the Win32 Character Map and Windows Font Viewer with flawless high DPI and touch support.
Rust 🆓
Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language. It is designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. Rust is known for enforcing memory safety — that is, that all references point to valid memory — without requiring the use of a garbage collector or reference counting like other memory-safe languages.
.Net Core 🆓
.NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many kinds of apps.
MacOS Platforms
Xcode 🆓
Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. It was initially released in late 2003; the latest stable release is version 13.4.1, released on June 2, 2022, and is available via the Mac App Store free of charge for macOS Monterey users.
Linux Platforms
GNATS 🆓
GNU GNATS is a set of tools for tracking bugs reported by users to a central site. This includes command line, e-mail, Emacs, and a network daemon, which can be used with a web interface. GNATS databases and configuration are stored in plain text files and can be customized to incorporate unique fields and workflows.
Netbeans 🆓
NetBeans is an integrated development environment for Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. NetBeans runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. In addition to Java development, it has extensions for other languages like PHP, C, C++, HTML5, and JavaScript. Applications based on NetBeans, including the NetBeans IDE, can be extended by third party developers.
Bluefish 🆓
Bluefish is a free software advanced text editor with a variety of tools for programming and website development. It supports coding languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Go, Vala, Ada, D, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby, and shell.
Aptana 🆓
Aptana, Inc. is a company that makes web application development tools for use with a variety of programming languages. Aptana’s main products include Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud and Aptana Jaxer.
Pycharm 🆓/💲
PyCharm is an integrated development environment used in computer programming, specifically for the Python programming language. It is developed by the Czech company JetBrains. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems, and supports web development with Django as well as data science with Anaconda.
Web
WordPress 🆓
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes.
Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide—ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites.
Joomla
Joomla, also spelled Joomla! and sometimes abbreviated as J!, is a free and open-source content management system for publishing web content on websites. Web content applications include discussion forums, photo galleries, e-Commerce and user communities and numerous other web-based applications.
Discourse
Discourse is a free and open-source Internet forum software. Features include support for categorization and tagging of discussions, configurable access control as well as usability improvements recently popularized by large social networks, such as live updates, expanding link previews, infinite scrolling, and real-time notifications.
Flarum
Flarum is Internet forum software written primarily in PHP, and a combination of JavaScript and TypeScript for its user interface. It was created as part of a merger of two existing forum software, FluxBB and esoTalk, and their two main developers, Franz Liedke and Toby Zerner.
Chrome DevTools 🆓
Chrome DevTools is a set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser.
jQuery 🆓
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. As of May 2019, jQuery is used by 73% of the 10 million most popular websites.
Bootstrap 🆓
Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains HTML, CSS and JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components. As of April 2022, Bootstrap is the eleventh most starred project on GitHub, with over 156,000 stars.
AngularJS 🆓
AngularJS was a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web framework for developing single-page applications. It was maintained mainly by Google and a community of individuals and corporations.
Sass 🆓
Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets. SassScript is the scripting language itself. Sass consists of two syntaxes. The original syntax, called “the indented syntax,” uses a syntax similar to Haml.
Clojure 🆓
Clojure is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform. Like other Lisp dialects, Clojure treats code as data and has a Lisp macro system. The current development process is community-driven, overseen by Rich Hickey as its benevolent dictator for life.
NGINX 🆓
Nginx, stylized as NGIИX, is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.
Sendbird 🆓/💲
SendBird is a messaging API for mobile applications and websites founded in 2013 by Harry Kim, John S. Kim and Brandon Y. Jeon.
Browsers
Web Assembly 🆓
WebAssembly defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
Project Management
Git 🆓
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It outclasses SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows.
GitHub 🆓/💲
GitHub, Inc. is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features.
GitKraken 🆓/💲
Millions of developers and teams around the world choose GitKraken Client to make Git work for them. It makes Git more visual and accessible with an intuitive UI, the flexibility to switch between a GUI or a terminal, and a seamless experience across operating systems. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps make it swift and simple to clone, fork, and add remotes. You can even create, view and manage pull requests.
CodeHub 🆓
CodeHub is a place to code, share, and learn from one another. It aims to support anyone with an interest in programming and web development in advancing their skills and knowledge. Whether you are an experienced developer or just learning to code, interested in design or programming, you are more than welcome.
BitBucket 🆓/💲
Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories
GitLab 🆓/💲
GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that provides GitLab, a DevOps software package that combines the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application. The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij.
Blockchain
Ethereum 🆓
Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, Ether is second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization. Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin.
Miscellaneous
Elasticsearch 🆓
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
Jenkins 🆓
Jenkins is a self-contained Java-based program, ready to run out-of-the-box, with packages for Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like operating systems. Easy configuration Jenkins can be easily set up and configured via its web interface, which includes on-the-fly error checks and built-in help.
Trello 🆓/💲
Trello is a web-based, Kanban-style, list-making application and is developed by Trello Enterprise, a subsidiary of Atlassian. Created in 2011 by Fog Creek Software, it was spun out to form the basis of a separate company in New York City in 2014 and sold to Atlassian in January 2017.
Mailchimp 🆓/💲
Mailchimp is an American marketing automation platform and email marketing service for managing mailing lists and creating email marketing campaigns to send to customers. Mailchimp is the trading name of its operator, Rocket Science Group, an American company founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Mark Armstrong, with Dan Kurzius joining at a later date. As of 2021, its parent company is Intuit.
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