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4 Must-Have Tools for Developing on Windows

jonosellier on September 23, 2020

No I am not talking about those apps, the ones everyone probably already has installed. The VSCodes, the VIMs, the Postmans. Nor am I talking about...
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Gleb Remniov

I would also recommend you JetBrains Mono Font.
It's free, open source and supports Font Ligatures.
I use it in all my IDE`s and code editors.

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jonosellier

I know I am in the minority, but I actually like the serifs. It feels more pleasing to read. Something about serifs seem to make it easier to read. I concede that JBM is probably better at smaller pixel heights because of those sharp cutoffs on the font so I think I'll give it another shot.

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Adrian Thomas

Yes. JetBrains Mono is great. Use it now as well.

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HamishWHC

I have to also recommend a powershell theme/shell called Starship (starship.rs) that is also cross-platform (for MacOS, Linux and Windows)!

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jonosellier

Starship certainly looks interesting. I think I'm going to give it a try today. Thanks for the recommendation

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed

thanks I have setup everything, and I fall in love again in programming :) thanks, thanks

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Danny Seymour

My fav tool for developing on Windows next to Windows Terminal has to be virtual desktops. It's so easy to switch to and from I usually have at least 4

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jonosellier

Yeah I have been working from home lately and my remote desktop doesn't support virtual desktop switching by track pad gesture so I am retraining myself to use the keyboard shortcut. Super underrated feature, especially for developing on a laptop where you don't have multiple physical screens

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pjda

There's a typo in the title of FONT.
I use github.com/be5invis/Iosevka makes good use of screen's real estate.

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jonosellier

Thanks for thatπŸ‘ For some reason my auto-correct thinks that I always mean front and I missed this one

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Ho Honsing • Edited

devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline...
Clickable link support is already available in Preview, just wait for it in the release *yay*

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webstuff

I ll test that powerline, thank youuu

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Ho Honsing

Yeah man, Windows Terminal is such a great tool, plus you can customize your own theme