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Oh. Got it.

I don't want to "name names," because that doesn't often end well. It's a personal decision, on my part to use, or not use, software. Many of the more esoteric tools that I use are "nice to have" addons, as opposed to "critical path" stuff.

I will say that I use Xcode, because I write native Swift apps, and it doesn't really make sense to use anything else. I try to limit extensions and whatnot. Most of the dependencies that I use in my projects were written by Yours Truly. I've written a boatload of them. I publish them as open source, but I don't think anyone else uses them; which is fine, by me.

I also use Git, because Linus writes code that I don't mind depending on. It has completely transformed the way that I do configuration management.

Back when I taught myself Android, I used Android Studio/Java (so you know that was a while ago), for the same reason that I use Xcode/Swift. It was the tool supported by the OS maker.




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