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1. Visual Studio IDE

4.5

Overall, I'd say my experience so far with Visual Studio has been super good. I use it almost daily for both main dev and some maintenance stuff, and honestly, it’s been reliable every time. I really like how easy it makes things like debugging and switching between projects and it just feels kinda familiar. Sometimes it's a little heavy and takes a bit longer to load up big solutions but, once it's running, I rarely have any problems. The whole git integration just makes life so much easier too and you don't need to keep jumping to another tool. So, yeah, overall, I just find it very solid and honestly can't imagine switching to anything else any time soon.

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2. Android Studio

4.4

I've spent some time building test automation with Android Studio and it's been pretty solid overall. The Espresso framework does most of what I need for UI testing, though I had to write a lot of custom wait logic because the default synchronization does not cut it for complex apps. The Layout Inspector is very helpful when tests randomly break, as I can see exactly what's happening in the view hierarchy. My biggest headache is honestly the build times, waiting 3 to 4 minutes just to run a single test gets tiring fast when I'm trying to debug something.

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3. Xcode

4.4

It provides code editing and UI design, provides powerful debugging, provides swift UI preview, automatic signing, simulators makes iOS and mac os development which is smoother than other tools set, has autocomplete refracting tools real time previews especially with swift UI and its performance analysis tools are top tier

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4. PyCharm

4.5

PyCharm is... charmful! PyCharm has proven itself to be a necessity for my Python development, offering complex IDE features such as intelligent code completion, which is becoming an increasingly prevalent demand from developers, integrated testing and virtual environment management, a thing of beauty for Python. It integrates with the essential technologies well, such as Git and web development frameworks. As a move away from more traditional IDEs that students particularly are always told to use, PyCharm can at first seem difficult to grasp and introduces barriers to entry just to get started. An overwhelming feeling for any new developers who are entering an enterprise that relies on PyCharm.

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5. AWS Cloud9 (Legacy)

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4.5

Excellent secure, robust and flexible plataform that has allowed me to store personal data as well as use it as cloud computing, run and debug my codte, personal or business code.

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6. Firebase Studio

4.5

Great for vibe coding. I went from prototype to deployed in 20 hours (+ 12 hours for a senior developer to hard code, check quality and security). The fact that it is natively connected to Firebase makes the whole process easier and more intuitive for an amateur developer like me. Having unlimited Gemini credits to make any changes is a real plus. By connecting Firebase Studio to github one can get a real coding environment: development, staging, production. What I didn't like is that sometimes when an error is detected and the agent can't solve it, it gets into a loop trying to fix it over and over again. Also, sometimes even if you tell the agent not to implement or change anything beyond the specific command given, the agent is proactively destructive, it takes the initiative to change parts that were already approved. Finally, sometimes when building the console environment it gets stuck, and doesn't load; I was about to cry thinking all the work done will be lost, but the day after it worked again (why? no clue)

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7. PhpStorm

4.6

This IDE is great for writing PHP, as the name implies. Hook it up to Co-Pilot & the sky's the limit as the code suggestions are accurate maybe 75-80%, which improves productivity immensely.

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8. dbForge Edge

4.3

We have been using dbForge Edge for database administration and overall it has streamlined a lot of routine SQL tasks.The UI is clean, the tool is stable, and it supports multiple databases without needing separate tools.The only downside is that some advanced feature take time to explore and the licensing is slightly expensive for small teams

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